Simon Beecot was a country gentleman with a small income, a small estate and a mind considerably smaller than either. Beecot indulged in bouts of bad temper, till Paul, finding twenty-five too dignified an age to tolerate abuse, announced his intention of storming London as a scribbler. In plain words, Mr. As there were no other children Paul was heir to the Beecot acres, therefore their present proprietor suggested that his son should wait with idle hands for the falling in of the heritage. Beecot, having been bullied into ...
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Simon Beecot was a country gentleman with a small income, a small estate and a mind considerably smaller than either. Beecot indulged in bouts of bad temper, till Paul, finding twenty-five too dignified an age to tolerate abuse, announced his intention of storming London as a scribbler. In plain words, Mr. As there were no other children Paul was heir to the Beecot acres, therefore their present proprietor suggested that his son should wait with idle hands for the falling in of the heritage. Beecot, having been bullied into old age long before her time, accepted sour looks and hard words as necessary to God's providence, but Paul, a fiery youth, resented useless nagging. He dwelt at Wargrove in Essex and spent his idle hours-of which he possessed a daily and nightly twenty-four-in snarling at his faded wife and in snapping between whiles at his son. For years Mr. Beecot would have to forego this enjoyment, as servants object to being sworn at without cause. Should this whipping-boy leave, Mr. Mrs. Beecot retired to a tearful rest, her bully found Paul a useful person on whom to expend his spleen. He owned more brain-power than his progenitor, and to this favoring of Nature paterfamilias naturally objected. Paul also desired fame, which was likewise a crime in the fire-side tyrant's eyes. Again, when Mrs. Beecot, coming of a long line of middle-class loafers, wished his son to be a loafer also.
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