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A Tale,

IN ONE VOLUME.

BY

H. RICHARDSON CLERK.

BIBLIOTHER

JUL 1879

BODLEIANA

London:

REMINGTON AND CO.,

5, ARUNDEL STREET, STRAND, W.C.

1877.

[All rights reserved.]

1251. f. 127

NEVER DESPAIR.

CHAPTER I.

""Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."

РОРЕ.

"It really is very annoying; I cannot conceive why Lady Norbury does not give me longer notice. It so happens that I have an engagement on the sixteenth, the day on which she tells me the school is to be examined, but I suppose I had better give it up; I am very sorry, though, to be obliged to do so, for it is of long standing."

With these words Mr. Leighton, the rector of Canondale, in Staffordshire, passed to his wife a letter which he had just received from Oakwood Park.

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