John Halifax, Gentleman (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from John Halifax, Gentleman "Get out o´ Mr. Fletcher´s road, ye idle, lounging, little -" "Vagabond," I think the woman (Sally Watkins, once my nurse) was going to say, but she changed her mind. My father and I both glanced round, surprised at her unusual reticence of epithets; but when the lad addressed turned, fixed his eyes on each of us for a moment, and made way for us, we ceased to wonder. Ragged, muddy, and miserable as he was, the poor boy looked anything but a "vagabond." "Thee need not go into the wet, my lad. Keep close to the wall, and there will be shelter enough both for us and thee," said my father, as he pulled my little hand-carriage into the alley, under cover from the pelting rain. The lad, with a grateful look, put out a hand likewise, and pushed me farther in. A strong hand it was - roughened and browned with labour - though he was scarcely as old as I. What would I not have given to have been so stalwart and so tall! Sally called from her house door, "Wouldn´t Master Phineas come in and sit by the Are a bit?" But it was always a trouble to me to move or walk; and I liked staying at the mouth of the alley, watching the autumnal shower come sweeping down the street; besides, I wanted to look again at the stranger lad. He had scarcely stirred, but remained leaning against the wall - either through weariness, or in order to be out of our way. He took little or no notice of us, but kept his eyes fixed on the pavement - for we actually boasted pavement in the High Street of our town of Norton Bury - watching the eddying raindrops, which, each as it fell, threw up a little mist of spray. It was a serious, haggard face for a boy of only fourteen or so. Let me call it up before me - I can easily, even after more than fifty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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