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"We avoided the ‘highways' and public resorts of travel-the grand railway lines, the great cities, the famous spas, the big hotels, and we sought out the by-ways-unfrequented hamlets and villages on mountain heights or in forest depths, as yet undiscovered by the eyes, unprofaned by the feet of speculators.
"We had seen enough of the splendor and magnificence of Europe; we wished to see some of its real, working life.