Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Fisher-Maiden: A Norwegian Tale
A small town like this is a quiet place. All noise is confined to the vicinity of the shipping, or to the pontoon bridge, where the peasants' boats are moored, and where vessels take aboard and discharge their cargoes. The small town where our scene is laid has but one street, and this runs just by the shore. Its one and two story houses, which are painted red and white, wind along the street on its land side. They do not, however, adjoin one another, neat gardens lying between them. It is a long, broad street, and when the wind blows landward it partakes of the smell of whatever may be near the bridge. It is quiet here not from any fear of the police, for of these, as a general thing, little is known, but because the inhabitants, being all acquaintances, are afraid to speak ill of their neigh bors. Passing down the street, one must needs bow before each window, where an old lady usually sits, who returns the greeting nor must any one be passed upon the road without a salutation, for all these quiet people seem to go about for the sole purpose of study ing propriety, for the benefit of their neighbors as well as themselves. Any one trespassing upon the bounds to which his place and standing limit him, loses his good name, for his neighbors not only know him, but they knew his father and grandfather before him, and a search is at once instituted to ascertain whether the family have ever shown any tendency toward the com mission of any impropriety.
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.
