Valentin and Number Seventeen (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Valentin and Number Seventeen My father, at this present moment, in spite of all that has come and gone, is a very rich man. I do not say that he is rich as the English understand it, but he has even now rents to the amount of 48,000 francs a year, about £2,000 sterling. Had he been poor, it might have been better or worse for me, but he is rich even now. I am the only son, and so I have been brought up in entire idleness. I have had certainly a fine education, partly at Metz and partly at home; but I have never done anything great, simply because I never was taught how to do anything. I am informed that some of you young Englishmen are in exactly the same position; but it is hard to believe, because I have always been taught that you are so very practical. You demand my nationality; I reply that I am entirely uncertain of it. I call myself a Frenchman. Still, although the best part of my father´s estates are now in Germany, I begin to believe that I have no nationality at all; I speak German quite as well as I do French. My heart is in France, but my home is in Germany. The English and the Scotch were at deadly war for many years, yet now they are but one nation. You can understand, then, that I, although a Frenchman, have no prejudices; in fact, I think that the people of the Rhine Provinces are much more intelligent than the peasants of Alsace, Lorraine, and Champagne, but I like the French the best. When I talk with a good Englishman he will always allow that the Scotch are better educated than the English, but he loves the English best; may it not be so with me? I must, however, leave speculation and come to fact. I must, I fear, tell you all about myself, except my character. That I cannot give you, for I do not know it myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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