The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-25

wood"
"Flattererl Coaxing flatterer! Don't
believe word she says, Miss Arnold. l
am as empty-pated rattle-skull as ever
was turned raw into one of her majesty's
regiments, and that is saying good deal
can tell you. But this dear creature
here loves bit of romance in her heart.
What's o'clockY
"Ohp looking at the tiniest of watches,
"a full two hours to dinner; and such a
day too for story, and just look at that
spreading oak with the bench under it,
and the deer lying crouching there so
sweetly, and the wind just lulhng the
boughs as it were to rest. Here, nurse,
bundle the baby away to her nursery.
Now, do, there's darling Edgar"
"Why, my love, you are making awful
preparation. 1t is almost as terrible as
reading manuscript to begin relation,
all sitting solemnly y upon bench under
tree together There is not much to
tell, poor fellow; only did pity him from
my heart of hearts,"
Catherine had her way, and they sat
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this majestic oak; and she put her arm in
her husbands and her hand into that of
Lettice, and thus sitting between them,
loving and beloved, she listened, the hap
piest, as she was one of the honestest and
best, of heavens creatures.
eve were both together at large,
rough sort of preparatory school," began
Edgar, "where there might be over a
hundred boys or 50. They were mostly,
if not entirely, intended for the military
profession, and came from parents OF all
sorts of positions and degrees, and of all
sorts of principles, characters, and man
ners. A very omnium gatherum that
school was, and the ways of it were as
rough as in any school, should think,
they could possibly be. | was a tall,
healthy rebel, when was sent there, as
strong as little Hercules, and excessive
ly proud of my force and prowess. A
bold, bold, daring, cheerful, merry lad, as
ever left his mothers apron string; very
sorry to quit the dotingest of mothers,
and the happiest of homes, and the
pleasantest of fathers; but mighty proud
to come out of the gymnasium, and to be
a man, as thought thigh time should,
in cloth trowsers and Jacket, instead of a
black velvet coatee. In plunged, plump
head foremost amid the vortex, and was
soon in a thousand scrapes and quarrels,
battling my way with my fists, and my
merry eye; for they used to tell me the
merry eve did more for me even than my
impudence in fighting everything that
would condescend to fight such young
ster. | was soon established, and then |
breathed after my victories, and began to
look round.
80 long as | had considered the throng
about me in the light of so many adver-
saries to be beaten by main force, and
their rude and insulting ways only as
provocatives to the fray, | had cared lit
tie for their manners or their proceed
ngs, their coarseness and vulgarity, their
brutality and their vices. Butnow, scat
ed in peace upon the emnence to which
had fought my way, had time to
breathe and observe. can not describe
: to YOU how shocked, how sickened, how
disguised became. Par parenthese, |
will say that it has always been an as
tonishment to me, how parents so tender
as mine could send a frank, honest-heart-
ed, well meaning little fellow into such a
place. But the school had high reputa-
ton. was then fourth son, and had to
make my way as best | could in the pro.
fession chosen for me. So here / came.
was about ten or eleven years old, l must
add in excuse for my parents, though
called myself so young, | felt younger
because this was my first school. TO re,
sumo. When | had vanquished them, il
, is not in words to describe how desplsed
and detested the majority of my school
a fellows for their vulgar pleasures, theil
, offensive habits, their hard, rough, bruta
| manners, their vicious principles, anc
: their vile, blasphemous impiety. wa
warm lover and still more arden
!, hater, and my hatred to most of them ex
d ceeded all bounds of reason; but it wa
:, lust such as a straightforward, warn
d tempered fellow is certain to entertain
y without mitigation in such a case.
IS ITo RF CoNTIyUED.