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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 III EARLY FROSTS I WAS not always a recluse?not always the musty bookworm who exists only amongst dusty shelves and rare old badly-printed editions. The same man who some years ago would have bade me see his two-year-olds gallop, now asks me to arrange his library. I once lived in the world as others do. Shall I confess it ? my heart was never thoroughly interested in what is termed society. Perhaps I had not room for so many objects of interest and affection; perhaps, like an unskilful gambler, I set all my store on one desperate throw, and lost, and cared not to try again; to play for silver where I had once staked gold. So the bowl has stood empty ever since. This is no story of my own life. I only mention it because I want an explanation of something which my former experience has convinced me to be an undoubted fact; and I do not wish my experience to be set at nought, as that of one who has never been down in the arena, and spilt his blood upon the thirsty sand. Why is it that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred those women who have been brought up chiefly amongst men, who have had no sisters, who have lost a mother early in life (doubtless for many reasons a sad affliction to a girl), who have been dependent on father or brothers for society and conversation, should turn out the most fascinating and superior of their sex ? Why is it that in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand, the boy who is educated solely by his mother becomes a triumphant and successful man in after-life? Perhaps the opposite influence of either sex is beneficial to the other; perhaps the girl derives vigorous thought, expanded views, habits of reflection, nay, more, charity and forbearance, from her male associates, as the boy is indebted to his mother's tuition and...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217479110
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 142
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217479111
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 268 gr


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