This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...t Charles is devoted to the young lady, orders him to drop her at once. Sir Geoffry, meanwhile, having commanded Talbot to insinuate himself into Violets good graces. But Our Boys and our girls mate contrary to orders; whereupon Sir Geoffry tells his son to go and starve, Middlewick follows suit by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...t Charles is devoted to the young lady, orders him to drop her at once. Sir Geoffry, meanwhile, having commanded Talbot to insinuate himself into Violets good graces. But Our Boys and our girls mate contrary to orders; whereupon Sir Geoffry tells his son to go and starve, Middlewick follows suit by disowning Charles, and the two boys depart leaving the girls in a state of utter despair, while the old men are congratulating themselves and each other on being downright Roman fathers. Seven months later finds Our Boys in the garret of a third rate London lodging house, thin, shabby and otherwise showing extreme poverty, but firm in the resolution not to apply to their relatives for aid. During their absence from their lodgings. Sir Geoffry and Middlewick appear, having learned of their sons whereabouts, and listen to an account of their pitiable condition from Belinda, a comical maid-of-all-work, which brings them to the verge of relenting, each waiting for the other to break down first. Hearing steps outside, they retire hastily just as Clarissa comes in; she brings a fowl with her and, in company with Belinda goes to the kitchen to prepare it, leaving her bonnet on a chair. Violet and Mary now appear and, on seeing the bonnet, suspect Our Boys of being false; so that on the boys return a stormy scene ensues, ending by the girls indignantly taking their departure. The two fathers, though unable, from their place of conceahnent, lo understand what has been said, have recognized female voices and, coming out of their ambush, upbraid their sons as profligates, whereupon they, in turn, are ordered off the premises. The two girls now return, after discovering their mistake, heartily ashamed of their suspicions; Aunt Clarissa follows, and...
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