The Three Clerks
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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: him. To eschew the bad is certainly possible for him ; but as to the good, he must wait till he be chosen. This it is, that is too much for him. He cannot live without society, and so he fitlls. Society, an ampl...
MorePurchase 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: him. To eschew the bad is certainly possible for him ; but as to the good, he must wait till he be chosen. This it is, that is too much for him. He cannot live without society, and so he fitlls. Society, an ample allowance of society, this is the first requisite which a mother should seek in sending her son to live alone in London ; balls, routs, picnics, parties; women, pretty, well-dressed, witty, easy-mannered; good pictures, elegant drawing-rooms, well got-up books, Majolica and Dresden china - these are the truest guards to protect a youth from dissipation and immorality. " These are th books, the arts, the academes That show, contain, and nourish all the world," - if only a youth could have them at his disposal. Some of these things, though by no means all, Charley Tudor encountered at the Woodwards. CHAPTER III. THE WOODWARDS. It is very difficult now-a-days to say where the suburbs of London come to an end, and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country, have turned the country into a city. London will soon assume the shape of a great starfish. The old town, extending from Poplar to Hammersmith, will be the nucleus, and the various railway lines will be the projecting rays. There are still, however, some few nooks within reach of the metropolis which have not been be-villaed and betraced out of all look of rural charm, and the little village of Hampton, with its old-fashioned country inn, and its bright, quiet, grassy river, is one of them, in spite of the triple metropolitan water-works on the one side, and the close vicinity on the other of Hampton-Court, that well-loved resort of cockneydom. It was here that the Woodwards lived. Just on the outskirts of the village, on the side of it furthest from ...
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