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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. 1902. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II FOR a year or two things went on in the same fashion for Jan. The petty worries of his daily life, which arose chiefly from the cross-grain in his mother's character, were harder to bear than the worst blows of misfortune. Mrs. Oxber was gradually failing, and her querulousness increased with her growing feebleness. Grievous as the burden seemed to him, he forced himself to cheerfulness by a continual effort of will, and met all her complaints with a laugh and joking goodhumour. But his life had its compensations; he was thrown back on himself, and found an anodyne in books. Billy Vixen lent him several strenuous works on political economy; and, in a small lending library in Suckton, he found the King's Treasury. His troubles were as nothing when he began to hold commerce with the mighty dead--Milton and Shakespeare and Scott. When his mother had gone to bed, and he was free from interruption, he sat for glorious hours wandering in an enchanted world. These midnight hours with the great awoke in him an intoxicating exaltation of soul, and lifted him into serener air. Books, he afterwards declared, were his salvation, and enabled him to endure to the end in the grim battle that was before him. He looked forward as eagerly to the hours of darkness as a spirit condemned to earth by day would seek its native air by night. By day he was a common workman, by night a king. He still went on the village green after his day's work was done, and mixed with his fellows. But he was often meditative and absent-minded, and rustic wit declared that he must be in love. Jan denied it with a laugh, but it was true, although he hardly knew it. At the golden age of twenty-two love found him and wounded him sorely, turning his strength to sweetness. It was in church...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459038561
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459038568
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr


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