Our experiences in Bonn were not wholly satisfactory.

Dear Auntie was a maiden lady, looking on all young men as wolves to be kept far from her growing lambs.

Bonn was a university town, and there was a mania just then prevailing there for all things English.

Emma was a plump, rosy, fair-haired typical English maiden, full of frolic and harmless fun; I a very slight, pale, black-haired girl, alternating between wild fun and extreme pensiveness.

In the boarding-house to which we went at first--the "Chateau du Rhin," a beautiful place overhanging the broad, blue Rhine--there chanced to be staying the two sons of the late Duke of Hamilton, the Marquis of Douglas and Lord Charles, with their tutor.
They had the whole drawing-room floor: we a sitting-room on the ground floor and bedrooms above.