Excerpt from Thrilling Adventures of the Prisoner of the Border Elegant, well - educated, witty and graceful, he really believed himself to he a very ordinary mortal, who owed all his considera tion to the extreme good-nature of his acquaintances, and to the great merits of his younger brother. His friends were all quite or nearly faultless in his estimation, but Tom was a perfect paragon of excellence. SO talented, so learned, so very, very deep, so ambi tious, too, that he was sure to become a very great man ere long, ...
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Excerpt from Thrilling Adventures of the Prisoner of the Border Elegant, well - educated, witty and graceful, he really believed himself to he a very ordinary mortal, who owed all his considera tion to the extreme good-nature of his acquaintances, and to the great merits of his younger brother. His friends were all quite or nearly faultless in his estimation, but Tom was a perfect paragon of excellence. SO talented, so learned, so very, very deep, so ambi tious, too, that he was sure to become a very great man ere long, and to shed a rich lustre upon the family name. Ah! How he regretted that his parents, whose pet Tom had ever been, could not have been permitted to live to see that coming day which was to realize their predictions and his own expectations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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