Francis William Lauderdale Adams

Name: A Child of the Age — Chapter IV.
Author: Francis William Lauderdale Adams

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“A Child of the Age — Chapter IV.”, published in 1894, is a work by Francis William Lauderdale Adams. It explores elements such as first fortnight, Leicester and quad.

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Chapter IV. (1894)

“ Sometimes she stood still, turned towards me; but neither of us made any great effort to see the other. 'My father lies dead in the close dark coffin in the ground with a frown on his face. . . . And my thoughts of them,' I said to myself, 'are this much worth: that my mother is dead, "the late Mrs. Leicester," and my father's face probably past all frowning now. Nay, they probably are semi-dissolved bodies together!' On which thought I fell asleep, and had a horrible dream of propping up the body of my father, great, naked, flabby, which would come upon me. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Chapter IV. (1894)

“ I remember, the last night, going in to Mother McCarthy to get my hat from the cupboard—how I came along the dark passage: opened the door, with Gordon (the monitor) under the gas, leaning against the iron-work of Armstrong's bed, reading a book and biting his nails: went on to by my bed; threw the hat on to it: turned to the opened window and looked out—through the branches of two of the dark deep trees, into the quad, all there in the moonlight with the shadowed houses and, beyond, the opened heaven paley blue, lit with some self-containing radiance. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Chapter IV. (1894)

“ I can say with the most absolute sincerity, that I believe that the greatest of her faults was thoughtlessness, and that I have so far considered, and shall in all probability continue to consider to the end of my life, that all attempts to make her out as, either naturally or by her early training, depraved are as unfounded as they are ungenerous and unjust. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Chapter IV. (1894)

“ Any intimacy with them was strongly deprecated by the late Major Leicester, your father, during his lifetime, and both as his friend and as your guardian I feel myself bound to follow out his wishes on the subject, even if my own did not coincide with them, as, I may add, they do most completely.
'I enclose my accustomary allowance of £5 to you for the year's pocket-money. You can apply to the Rev. Dr. Craven for the necessary funds for your travelling expenses, an account of which I shall expect you to forward to me.—I remain, truly yours, Thos. R. James. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Chapter IV. (1894)

“ He desires that you should be allowed to pass the first fortnight of your midsummer vacation with him at the Myrtles, Seabay, Isle of Wight, and I at present see no objection to your accepting his invitation; but you are, as far as I am concerned, at liberty to please yourself in the matter. He is, I understand, likely to go abroad again very shortly, having only come to England, as he informs me, in order to transact some urgent business which requires his presence in England ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Chapter IV. (1894)

“ Colonel James, has not left you in complete ignorance of the correspondence that has been passing between us.
'I prefer coming at once to the point, or rather one of the points; for there are two. The first is, some explanation of what you must suppose to have been nothing short of absolute neglect of yourself on my part; the second is, as you are probably aware, to ask you to confer upon me the pleasure of your society here for the first fortnight in August. I should, indeed, have been happy to have given you a somewhat larger invitation ”

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