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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: Mr. Drummond g-lanced his eye over the papers, and after performing his professional duty, put them into his pocket; and sped him home to the parsonage, where, for several evenings, the attention of the family was engaged by listening to the following narrative. CHAPTER I. The changing scenes of life are over;?my sun is declining, ?soon it will cease to illumine the hills and vales which have been traversed by my weary steps. I will take a last survey; and, by the aid of its departing rays, endeavor to retrace all my wanderings. Ah its soft beams still gild the safe and straight road which lay before me Now I see it distinctly; and I can perceive, too, the crooked paths and labyrinths into which I deviated. There I was bewildered, ?and thence an unseen hand brought me, at length, as a strayed sheep into the fold. Though parentage, noble or obscure, may entail honor or the reverse on an individual, I am happily exempted from either extreme; having been born in that intermediate class of society generally esteemed the most favorable to virtue and to happiness. My father was a solicitor in a populous town, and derived considerable emolument from his profession. My acquaintance with him, during my earlier years, v/as certainly not very familiar; for his exclusive application to business was incompatible with domestic habits. His father having dissipated a moderate fortune in desultory pursuits, and thereby lost some favorable opportunities of providing for his family, determined him to an opposite line of conduct. Keeping one object constantly in view, he exerted all his energies to repair the injury his fortunes had sustained; and he suffered few matters, either within doors or without, to interrupt his favorite concerns. Of my mother, during this early period of my life.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217865470 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021786547X |
| 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 | 82 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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