The Hope of the House (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Hope of the House Young Owen leaned against the rough gate and gazed out across the landscape. His heart was sorrowful, and the beauty of the prospect pierced it with an almost physical pain. Just a week ago, up at Cambridge, life had opened out before him with a vision as fair and untroubled as that sweep of country upon which his eyes now rested: sweet with the promise of spring; sun-gilt, shadowed with but the most fleeting clouds - clouds of youth, that have more light than gloom in them. Now death had stricken his house. Ruin menaced. A burden of care and responsibility, over-heavy for his twenty years, had been flung upon his shoulders. He had come out here to think, to grapple with a problem which was not solvable, whichever way one looked at it, save at some grievous cost. He had to take a decision vitally concerning not only his future, but that of his only brother, still a child. When - how long ago it seemed I - his tutor had broken to him the sudden passing away of his kindly, easy-going father, he had thought, with juvenile exaggeration, that he had touched the extreme of sorrow. 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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