There must have been pumps of some sort. Before 1914,
tens of thousands of tourists visited Nuremberg annually, but the
guide-books are almost silent about Brunswick, which is fully as
picturesque.
The standard of material comfort appeared far higher in Brunswick
than in a French provincial town. The manner in which the
Spiegelbergs' house was fitted up seemed very elaborate after the
simple appointments of the Ducros' farm-house, though nothing in
the world would have induced me to own one single object that this
Teutonic residence contained. The Spiegelbergs treated me
extremely kindly, and I was fortunate in being quartered on such
agreeable people.
At Nyons there was not one single bookseller, but Brunswick
bristled with book-shops, and, in addition, there were two of
those most excellent lending libraries to be found in every German
town. Here almost every book ever published in German or English
was to be found, as well as a few very cautiously selected French
ones, for German parents were careful then as to what their
daughters read.
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