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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: to all true workers) was a happiness, a progress.a fulfilment, rather than a task. They worked on for the work's sake as much as for what it broughtto them, and understood what was best worth having; learning the things that people often don't learn who have only bought their places in the world, or inherited them from others. I have written elsewhere of our early home in Young Street, and of our life there, and of the people who used to come to the old Tllc KKUiv's HOME AT NO. 13 YOUNG STREET, KENSINdTON, From 1846 To 1853. house at the corner of Kensington Square, in which my father wrote Vanity Fair, and Pendennis, and Esmond, and where he lived for seven years. They were fruitful years, bringing their sheaves and gathering in their full harvests. It was in August 1846 that my father, after some hesitation, settled down in Kensington. He writes to his mother, I am beginning to count the days now till you come; and I have got the rooms all ready in the rough, all but a couple of bedsteads and a few etceteras, which fall into their place in a day or two. ... As usual I am full ofbnsiness and racket, working every day, and yet not advancing somehow; and poor too, although everybody gives me credit for making a fortune. I like Kensington Gardens very much indeed, walk in and out too sometimes, and I have health, and much more work and leisure too. . . . Aunt Halliday has sent me a farewell letter and a store of mango pickles and chutney. All the London gaieties are over. I dined three days running at my own expense, and enjoyed that relaxation amazingly. Shan't you bring a servant with the children ? It was not till late in the autumn that we came to live with my father at Kensington. We had been at Paris with our grandparents, while he was at work in Lon...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217420839 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217420834 |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $23.65 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 322 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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