A Year in Europe

CHAPTER I.

A COLD SUMMER VOYAGE.

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND, _June 28, 1902_.

[Sidenote: A Pleasant Memory.]

An American traveller says that a sea voyage, compared with land travel, is a good deal like matrimony compared with single blessedness: either decidedly better or decidedly worse. With me, on my first voyage to Europe a few years ago, it was, like my own venture ...