THE ROBERTSES ON THEIR TRAVEL S. BY MRS TROLLOPE, AUTHORESS OF "THE BARNABYS IN AMERICA," "THE ATTRACTIVE MAN," "THE VICAR OF WREXHILL," &c. IN THREE VOLUME VOL. I. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1846. THE ROBERTSES ON THEIR TRAVEL S. CHAPTER I. A SCORE of reasons, at the very least, might easily be found to prove that it is a sin to make public any of the personal anecdotes and observations which we have all, more or less, the opportunity of making in private; there is a sort of treachery in doing so that can admit of no excuse or defence whatever, and most justly does it deserve the universal reprobation which attends it. Far distant, however, from any such offence is the office performed by the moral satirist, who, looking upon his fellow-mortals with an observant VOL. I. B |