Praise and Principle

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE ARCHERY MEETING. Weel featured, weel tochered, weel mounted, and braw. Burns. A lofty spirit his, and somewhat proud, Little gallant, and has a sort of cloud Hanging for ever on his cold address.?Rimini. Ida narrated to her father and mother the circumstances connected with Frank's...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE ARCHERY MEETING. Weel featured, weel tochered, weel mounted, and braw. Burns. A lofty spirit his, and somewhat proud, Little gallant, and has a sort of cloud Hanging for ever on his cold address.?Rimini. Ida narrated to her father and mother the circumstances connected with Frank's unexpected return, a narration unconsciously embellished hy her imagination, till, instead of a boy singularly careless of admiration, her friend shone forth a self-sacrificing hero. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton did not compliment him on his good conduct, or he would have disclaimed their praise, and divested himself of all honours not properly his own, hut they received him with even a more cordial welcome than formerly. A new life seemed opening to Frank's view. His home education, and the secluded habits of his father, had rendered his early life very solitary. The reserve and gravity produced by this, his abode at Dr. Manton's school had been too short to affect; but now he had found a friend, a companion, and under Ida's sunny influence his reserve melted away, his nature expanded, and from the seemingly barren soil of his heart was developed a depth of tenderness, and a susceptibility to all kindly and charitable influences, possessed by few. Mr. Derwent had been careful to implant in his son's mind right principles?principles of love to man and reverence B2 to Gotl?but it was from the glowing hearts of the good Mrs. Hamilton and his friend Ida that the feelings were enkindled which set these principles in action. Frank's vacation of two months was within a fortnight of its conclusion, when an unexpected visitor appeared at Mr. lierryl's. It was Charles Ellersby. He was to enter the University of Cambridge at the approaching commencement, and his mother had...