Excerpt from The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography by Alice M. Diehl, Novelist-Writer-Musician Young Massa went home - as the Mother country is called by most colonials - when he was twelve, to a boarding-school fashionable in the days before public-school fever was an epidemic, where he remained until, at eighteen, his father, for some reason of his own, cut him adrift by the purchase of a com mission in the Dragoon Guards and the payment of his patrimony - a few thousands. This summary disposal of him was ...
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Excerpt from The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography by Alice M. Diehl, Novelist-Writer-Musician Young Massa went home - as the Mother country is called by most colonials - when he was twelve, to a boarding-school fashionable in the days before public-school fever was an epidemic, where he remained until, at eighteen, his father, for some reason of his own, cut him adrift by the purchase of a com mission in the Dragoon Guards and the payment of his patrimony - a few thousands. This summary disposal of him was accompanied by a solemn letter of admonition as to his future. What ever Stephen Vidal's own moral standpoint may have been, his epistolary preachments were morality itself. His letters to his son Charles would have been a fitting contribution to some Compleat Letterwriter of that day. Charles read that last letter, admired it, put it away as a sacred relic, and, speedily forgetting its contents, lived the gay life of the gayest of young dragoons; spent his money freely, was the life and soul of the mess, made friends joyously here, there, and every where, and found himself at the end of some eighteen months without a penny to bless himself with. It was a shock. It sobered him and set him think ing. He could not remain in that regiment, that was certain. After consideration, he felt greatly inclined, by reason of his intensely sympathetic tempera ment as well as by a marked attraction to medicine and surgery, to qualify for the great profession of healing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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