Eric St. Winifred´s and Julian Home (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Eric St. Winifred´s and Julian Home Ah dear delights, that o´er my soul On memory´s wing like shadows fly! Ah flowers that Joy from Eden stole, While Innocence stood laughing by. Coleridge. ´Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!´ cried a young boy, as he capered vigorously about, and clapped his hands. ´Father and mother will be home in a week now, and then we shall stay here a little time, and then, and then, I shall go to school.´ The last words were enunciated with immense importance, as he stopped his impromptu dance before the chair where his sober cousin Fanny was patiently working at her crochet; but she did not look so much affected by the announcement as the boy seemed to demand, so he again exclaimed, ´And then, Miss Fanny, I shall go to school.´ ´Well, Eric,´ said Fanny, raising her matter-of-fact quiet face from her endless work, ´I doubt, dear, whether you will talk of it with quite as much joy a year hence.´ ´Oh ay, Fanny, that´s just like you to say so; you´re always talking and prophesying; but never mind, I´m going to school, so, hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!´ and he again began his capering, - jumping over the chairs, trying to vault the tables, singing and dancing with an exuberance of delight, till, catching a sudden sight of his little spaniel Flo, he sprang through the open window into the garden, and disappeared behind the trees of the shrubbery; but Fanny still heard his clear, ringing, silvery laughter, as he continued his games in the summer air. She looked up from her work after he had gone, and sighed. In spite of the sunshine and balm of the bright weather, a sense of heaviness and foreboding oppressed her. Everything looked smiling and beautiful, and there was an almost irresistible contagion in the mirth of her young cousin, but still she could not help feeling sad. It was not merely that she would have to part with Eric, ´but that bright boy,´ thought Fanny, ´what will become of him? I have heard strange things of schools; oh, if he should be spoilt and ruined, what misery it would be. Those baby lips, that pure young heart, a year may work sad change in their words and thoughts!´ She sighed again, and her eyes glistened as she raised them upwards, and breathed a silent prayer. She loved the boy dearly, and had taught him from his earliest years. In most things she found him an apt pupil. Truthful, ingenuous, quick, he would acquire almost without effort any subject that interested him, and a word was often enough to bring the impetuous blood to his cheeks, in a flush of pride or indignation. 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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