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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1822. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... came to ask questions about school, but I will not talk to hinder you." Lewis begged him to come in, and said that talking never hindered him; but that he could not be sure of his having any sense for answers, till he had sent off the letters for home, which his father had left him to finish and seal. Before he sealed his little note he began to shuffle about the room in search of "What?" said Frank. "My carpet bag," said he. Frank found it for him. It was stuffed so as never carpet bag was stuffed before : yet that is a bold word. Out of it he dragged shoes, boots, shirts, books, trousers, jackets, innumerable little parcels, and strange things directed to different people, and all these he began to kick about, and tumble over, in search of something. ' What?" said Frank. "A bit of yellow silk," said Lewis, rummaging on in the greatest hurry. Oh, the post will be too late.'" And Frank tumbled over the things too to help hito, but without well knowing what it was he was looking for; but at last, turning one of a pair of new boots upside down, and saying to himself '•Poor Felix!" out dropped something like a lock of yellow hair, upon which Lewis pounced, put it into his note, and sealed the letters. "It is very well," said Frank, "you knew what you were looking for: I did not. I never should have known that was yellow silk. But how you burn your fingers with the wax, without minding it! Give -roe the packet, and I will run down, and put it in the post-bag for you." "And pray," said Lewis, '• come back again." He did so ; and now Lewis had sense to answer questions. The result of all the questions asked, and answers given, was, that Lewis liked home much better to be sure than school; but he liked his own school better than any other. Boys were never f...
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About the Author
Although born in England in 1768, Maria Edgeworth was raised in Ireland from a young age after the death of her mother. After nearly losing her sight at age fourteen, Edgeworth was tutored at home by her father, helping to run their estate and taking charge of her younger siblings. Over the course of her life she collaborated and published books with her father, and produced many more of her own adult and children s works, including such classics as Castle Rackrent, Patronage, Belinda, Ormond and The Absentee. Edgeworth spent her entire life on the family estate, but kept up friendships and correspondences with her contemporaries Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and her writing had a profound influence upon Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was outspoken on the issues of poverty, women s rights, and racial inequalities. During the beginnings of famine in Ireland, Edgeworth worked in relief and support of the sick and destitute. She died in 1849 at the age of 81.
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