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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: power of pious refutation in making such an accusation recoil upon himself. So Robert held his peace, and avenging fate still left Mistress Deborah Eliotson to the tender mercies of wicked old Tom Aldin. CHAPTER THE FOURTH. KINSFOLK AND FBIENDS. There are youthful dreamers, Building castles fair, with stately stairways, Asking blindly Of the future what it cannot give them.?Losgfellow. Meanwhile, Cyrus Hawthorne-was away in London with Sir Philip Nugent. The lad was very happy in his new life, and wrote long, flourishing, affectionate accounts of it to his brother. He possessed a thousand luxuries and a thousand indulgences of which he was likely to feel only too keen an appreciation. There had been some idea of sending him to Eton or Harrow, but on further consideration, and for very obvious reasons, Sir Philip finally decided on giving him a home education. One Reverend Samuel Miles was elected to the office of his tutor, and that gentleman could have borne truthful testimony to the youngster's imperious temper as well as to his fine talents. Poor Mary Hawthorne had indulged her darling very much, and Sir Philip Nugent gave him no check. In fact, he soon conceived for him an overweening pride and affection. Cyrus possessed those gifts of nature which attract love in an uncommon degree. His brother's letter showed Robert an immense contrast between their two lives. Cyrus was in the height of prosperity?seeing good company, free of a luxurious home, reaping the advantages of a careful education; while he was leading a plain, hard-working existence, exposed to the mean tyranny of Mistress Deborah Eliotson, and finding all his relaxation in a country walk with George Sancton. No wonder if he were inclined to think his brother had drawn the happier lot. It was ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217677318
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217677312
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 290 gr


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