The Heir of Redclyffe by the Author of the Two Guardians

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: How glad he must be to have you to comfort him!' Philip ? Oh no. He was always reserved; open to no one but Margaret, not even to his father; and since her marriage he has shut himself up within himself more than ever. It has, at least I think it is this that has given him a severity, an unwillingness to trust, which I believe is often the consequence of a great disappointment either in love or in friendship.' 'Thank you for telling me, ' said Guy: 'I shall understand him better, and look up to him more. Oh! it is a cruel thing to find that what one loves is, or has not been, all one thought. What must he not have gone through !' Mrs. Edmonstone was well pleased to have given so much assistance to Guy's sincere desire to become attached to hin cousin, one of the most favourable signs in the character that was winning so much upon her. CHAPTER V. A cloud was o'er my childhood's dream, I aat in solitude; I know not how?I know not why, But round my soul all drearily There was a silent shroud. Thoughts m Past Yr.ir.s. 11TRS. EDMONSTONE was anxious to hear Mr. Lascelles' -LYJL opinion of his pupil, and in time she learnt that he thought Sir Guy had very good abilities, and a fair amount of general information; but that his classical knowledge was far from accurate, and mathematics had been greatly neglected. He had been encouraged to think his work done when he had gathered the general meaning of a passage, or translated it into English verse, spirited and flowing, but often further from the original than he or his tutor could perceive. He had never been taught to work, at least as other boys study, and great application would be requisite to bring his attainments to a level with those of far less clever boys educated at a public school. Mr. Lascelles to...