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Excerpt from The North Star and the Southern Cross, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the Personal Experiences, Impressions and Observations of Margaretha Weppner, in a Two Years' Journey Around the World Despite my mother's wish to give me every advantage, I received only a common school education; still, through many difficulties, I succeeded in acquiring a knowledge of several languages, and in becoming somewhat familiar with music. I left my father's roof at an early age, and the separation from my mother and my birthplace was a crushing grief to me for many years. I went to Nancy, where I taught German in a private school consisting of four classes of seventy girls, in return for which I was instructed in French and music, and received my board. Later, I taught German and French in England, learning English on the same terms, and was thus enabled after wards to teach both English and French in Germany. By a similar exchange I also acquired Italian, availing myself of every spare moment during the day and a great part of the night to complete my studies. 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.