This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...child! How do you employ the hours set apart for relaxation?" Laura blushed; but, recollecting herself, looked up in his face with modest ingenuousness, and replied: " The time that is not spent in" necessary exercise out of doors, in my sweet garden and among the cottages, does not hang heavy on my ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...child! How do you employ the hours set apart for relaxation?" Laura blushed; but, recollecting herself, looked up in his face with modest ingenuousness, and replied: " The time that is not spent in" necessary exercise out of doors, in my sweet garden and among the cottages, does not hang heavy on my hands, brother. I haVe a nice little library; and I also work for my father, and Leonard, and for the poor." "And you have not even a dancing master! "For what purpose? I am not going to frequent ball-rooms." "Nor any other rooms, I should suppose;, unless to marshal the brats in some Sunday "-.school-roorh, and teach them A B C," '"" "Nay, mine is the Testament class, I assure you; far beyond A B C." Herbert shrugged his shoulders in despair, and walkeJ off. The next source from which vexation arose, was the total separation of his brother from general society. A certain measure of outward decorum and abstinence from scenes of gross profligacy he admitted to be the necessary accompaniments of. religious profession; but' sanctity, carried to such an excess, appeared to Herbert nothing short of madness. He heard this singularity of Leonard, with that of some other young men, treated with the most saroas-r tic ridicule and bitter invective among the ungodly, companions with whom he already passr ed many an hour: and family pride, no less than worldly-mindedness, wrought in him to view with deep dissatisfaction a course that appeared so calculated to invite the finger of scorn. From joining in the remarks of ethers, he gradually imbibed an envious dislike of his' brother, on grounds which, from the days of own their inferior capacity for sustaining what he scoffingly called...
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