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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: were presumably models to the rest of the school, its leaders, its heroes, in a degree its rulers, promoters of all its sports, upholders of its reputation; and now all this had come out about him. No wonder the excitement was considerable. Such a thing, it was said, was unknown in the annals of Boxall. And who was he ? That was the question half the boys were asking, and the other half answering. And it was the answers which caused all the to-do. He was no other, it was said, than the son of a tipsy thief and a drunken rogue, who not only had been in prison over and over again, but was in prison at that very moment. A nice sort of fellow to be received in the company of gentlemen, and be placed over their heads in that sort of way. And not only, as they kindly put it, was he by birth a cad and a blackguard?not only was his father a choice specimen of humanity, but he himself was an-ad venturer, not to say a swindler. It was not quite clear how that was, but it was broadly stated that he had swindled Eichard Giffard (no relation of his), but whose inheritance, which by every right was Eichard's, he had taken for himself. No particular details were at hand; but that was the news which the boys had to digest that morning, to turn over and over, and to discuss each from his own point of view. And it was an indisputable fact that this boy had been placed monitor over them. The news had originated with Master Cecil Dunn, and the young gentleman was in great request wherever he appeared. He was at once charged with having learnt the news from Giffard; but this he denied point blank?he even swore it was not the case; what he stated, he stated he said from his own knowledge, which, upon his word of honour, was indisputably correct. His word of honour was not held of much account am...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217184663 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217184669 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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