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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II 1855?1859 Temple Grove?The White Lodge?The Prince of Wales?My first play ? Trouville ? Ryde ? Paris?The Northern Circuit?The Wortleys?Ravensworth?Begin shooting. In the end of January, 1855, I went to a school at Temple Grove, East Sheen, a large private school of about a hundred boys, kept by the Rev. Dr. Rowden. Temple Grove was about a mile from my home, and was called after Sir William Temple, to whom it was said to have belonged. My cousin, Edward Liddell, accompanied me, being about a year my senior. It was the Crimean winter, and the day we went to school was bitterly cold and the ground covered with snow. When our parents left us we were taken to the schoolroom, feeling very bewildered with the noise and novelty. The next day school life began in earnest, and I came to know for the first time what it was to eat my bread in tears. The cold of the great bare house, with its long windows and few fireplaces, was severe, and I soon was troubled with chilblains from getting my feet wet in the snow. But that was only a small part of my misery. The sudden change from a home where I was surrounded with care and affection to the indifference and occasional rough usage of school overwhelmed me, the more because I had never imagined anything of the kind. My new abode stood in extensive grounds, of which L.l. c 18 THE WHITE LODGE [II. a large field and a gravelled square surrounded by walls were dedicated to the use of the boys. The field was only used in the summer months; in the winter we were confined to the dismal playground. The teaching of Temple Grove was not bad, but the food was coarse and the general arrangements rough. Every night and morning we filed before the matron ?Miss Surrey?a kind, deep-bosomed old dame, who dealt two or th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217265232
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 110
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217265235
  • Publisher Date: 10 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 213 gr


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