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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: CHAPTER HL We have, in the preceding chapter shown our hero surrounded with the happiness of 'home.' We have witnessed the manly integrity and virtuoui firmness of his moral character, in his interview with Ralph Waldron; the kindness and affability of his nature in his unreserved intercourse with Roundy; the excellency of his character as a son; the purity of his devotion as a lover. We have seen him honored and loved, and the centre of the hopes of two beings, the dearest to him upon earth. We have borne testimony to his high principles as a man; and the temperance, truth and sound judgement he has manifested, have irresistably commanded our respecf, and created in our breasts a strong and sincere interest in his future career.? Towards Waldron, his companion from boyhood to manhood, a young man of equal social rank, of equal education, wealth and advantages, our sentiments have instinctively been of an opposite description. Instead of commanding our esteem, he has inspired in us emotions of dislike. Yet two years, nay'a much shorter period, before he would equally have challenged our regard and enlisted our interest . He had been, from his eighteenth up to his twenty-first year, the confidential clerk of his'relative, Mr. Ward, a distinguished merchant in New York. He had gone with him, after he had graduated at that early age, at the request of his father, who desired him to become a merchant . As he had stated to Edward, he had assiduously devoted himself to his business, and won the confidence of his uncle. But being ambitious of political distinction, to which he saw that the bar was the chief avenue, on arriving at maturity he left his uncle, returned to hii native place, a beautiful seat situated half a mile below that of Mrs. Austin, and entered upon the study of the l..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217207003 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217207006 |
| Weight | 0.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 84 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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