Job Tufton

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...discipline of life. Crissy, if not exactly lovely, was yet most certainly lovable, A TOinfG Man's Heqimen. 75 impulsive, domineering, brilliant; there was a dash and spirit about all she did that covered defects. Had she applied she would certainly have excelled: as it was, Ethel put the finishing touches to Crissy's drawings, played all the difficult accompaniments to her songs, completed all the various kinds of fancy work that she began and threw aside; picked out, and read aloud to her--sometimes explained--the meaning of choice passages in eminent poets and authors; and became, as it were, the indispensable neutral tint, or background, that threw out all Crissy's acquirements into bright and bold relief. In the five past years the two friends Frank and Archy had become whiskered and dashing young men, who considered that they knew "life" well--a knowledge which, as they understood and gained it, is rather apt to lead its votaries unsuspectingly to--death! Francis Withering was considered very handsome, but he was not strong; a weak left shoulder and arm, though it was not at all apparent as a disfigurement, gave him often unpleasant reminders of his Sabbath evening's accident. It was considered, too, by his mother, Mrs. John Withering, a woman without any opinions of her own, but always suggesting (and the family physician agreed with her--indeed took the initiative in suggesting to her) that the young man must be constantly fed up--kept up to some mysterious standard of strength; and though her comely son had a most unfilial impatience of "coddling," as he justly called it, yet he took care that some points of the required regimen should be faithfully adhered to. As to his digesting even a chop without the aid of bitter beer, eatin...