The Story of My Struggles: the Memoirs of Arminuis Vambéry ..
The book The Story of My Struggles: the Memoirs of Arminuis Vambéry .. was written by author Vámbéry, Ármin, 1832-1913 Here you can read free online of The Story of My Struggles: the Memoirs of Arminuis Vambéry .. book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Story of My Struggles: the Memoirs of Arminuis Vambéry .. a good or bad book?
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It deve- loped to such a mania with me, that I addressed every one in French — peasants, tradespeople, mer- chants, Slavs, Germans, and Hungarians, it was all the same to me, and great was my delight if they stared at me and admired me for my learning (?). Such juvenile tricks were the only amusement I had in my otherwise very hard life. In every other respect I was excessively badly off, and there is not a stone in the little town on the Danube that could not tell pitiable tales of my extreme ...misery and suffering. As long as I had half of the folding-bed at Mr. Levy's I was at least sure of a shelter, and had only to fight against hunger. But one evening I had for a bedfellow a young man, just arrived from a foreign country, and from him I caught an illness which showed itself after some days in constant irritation of the skin, and in consequence of which I was immediately sent away by Mr. Lovy. As I owed that good man a few pence he retained all my personal effects as payment of the debt ; so one dull autumn evening I left the house with my school-books under my arm, and wandered about in the streets, not daring to apply for shelter for 60 THE STORY OF MY STRUGGLES fear of being turned out again on account of my disease.
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