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. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... friends, and the old school, and her old parents, and the success of the agricultural part of the management of this Guilt-cross Union. Thus it was that I went from London to sleep in a workhouse. Very comfortable and agreeable I found it. The next weeks were spent in the neighbourhood of Norwich, and at ...
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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. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... friends, and the old school, and her old parents, and the success of the agricultural part of the management of this Guilt-cross Union. Thus it was that I went from London to sleep in a workhouse. Very comfortable and agreeable I found it. The next weeks were spent in the neighbourhood of Norwich, and at Cromer, where I was joined by my younger sister and her children. It was at Cromer that a strange impulse on my part, --an impulse of yielding chiefly, --caused me to go into an enterprise which had no result. It put me, for a time, in the difficulty of having too many irons in the fire; but that was not my fault; for I could have no conception of the news which was awaiting me in London, on my return. While at Cromer, I was justified in feeling that I might take as much time as I pleased about Comte. It depended wholly on myself: but before I got home, the case was changed, as I shall presently have to tell The intervening anecdote has been hitherto a profound secret, by my own desire;--perhaps the only secret of my own that I ever had: and this was part of the amusement. One reason why I tell it now is because it affords a confirmation out of my own experience of what many of my friends have wondered to hear me say;--that one cannot write fiction, after having written (con amore, at least) history and philosophy. Ever since the " Deerbrook " days, my friends had urged me to write more novels. When "Currer Bell" was staying with me, the winter before the time I have arrived at, she had spoken earnestly to me about it, and, as it appeared to us both, wholly in vain. While at Crorfler, however, I read " Pendennis " with such intense enjoyment, and it seemed so much the richer from its contrast with "the Ogilvies," and some other metaphysical, ...
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