Excerpt from Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Historical Introduction, by Francis Pulszky When I first had the happiness of meeting you in the year 1841, my girlish enthusiasm for En gland attracted your attention. You en couraged me to tell you all that filled my heart and occupied my mind, and kindly listened to the attempted development of my young ideas. The sanguinary events of the last year have driven me and my family from our country; but the good land that is beyond the sea, the mighty Queen of Ocean, has granted us a hospitable asylum, to which your generous kindness welcomed me. 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.