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I am indeed admonished of this by study of my son, for whose children in turn this
tale is indited, and who is now able to remember many incidents of his youth--
chiefly beatings and like parental cruelties--which I know very well never
happened at all. He is good enough to forgive me these mythical stripes and
bufferings, but he nurses their memory with ostentatious and increasingly
succinct recollection, whereas for my own part, and for his mother's, our enduring fear was lest we had ...
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
And with that realization might come a dreadful awakening from our dreams, say I
. You might have become a tea-king, Tim, and measure your fortune in millions. I
might have turned lawyer instead of soldier; I might have made a great name for
myself in Congress by long speeches full of dry facts and figures, or short ones
puffed up with pompous phrases. The fact that Six Stars existed might have gone
beyond our valley because here you and I were born, and for a time we honored
...
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
The Valley. In one of father La Fontaine's books, may be found a description of a
lovely valley, the residence of a beautiful and modest maiden, and of the heroine
of this Arcadia he writes: "There stands our heroine, as lovely as the valley, her
home, and as virtuous and good as her mother, who has devoted a lifetime to the
education of her daughter." But with the history of this maiden he weaves the
workings of an evil genius, which in the end is triumphant; for even the pure are ...
