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    lence , and at length dunking himself to death at the news of an jheir feeing boxv \ to his brother . Nothi ^ can be bette r described tha , $ the uncle and his family , by whom the boy was then € i taken ip . " The absence qf the dread of personal violence , and of the sight of intemperate excesses ; together with the order and comfort of the household , at first making his new

    home appear a sort of paradise ; but very soon the " cold and rigid atmosphere " that surrounded the nephew , there only on " sufference , " with the " rules of the house " enforced upon him , rousing him first to a consciousness of neglect and unkindness , then to a spirit of recklessness and disobedience , till he was declared tl utterly intolerable , and sent to school ;" where , in his own hearing , he was made over to the

    master as " a little blackguard , quite irreclaimable , and only to be kept in order by brute force ; " on which he became really all that he had been painted , and i € declared war with his whole soul against the world ;"—the re-awakening of its natural power of love and sympathy in the boy ' s heart ; are all

    beautifully described . He had determined to run away , careless of what his fate might be , when one day the master told him that a letter was come from a relation , inviting him to spend the day ; and granted a lordly permission to go" for this once /* though he " deserved no indulgence : "—

    " I was sauntering back to the prison yard , which , they called a playground , when I was told that there was a pony-chaise at the door ready to take me . My heart leaped at the word ; I fancied that * by means of this conveyance , I could proceed on the first stage of flight The ponycarriage was of the humblest description ; an old man drove . I got in , and away we trotted , the little cob that drew it going much faster than his looks gave warrant . The driver was deaf—I was sullen—toot

    a word did we exchange . My plan was , that he should take m £ to the farthest point he intended , and then that I should leap out and take to my heels . As we proceeded , however , my rebel fit somewhat subsided . We quitted the town in which the school was situated , and the dreary dusty roads I was accustomed to perambulate under the superintendence of the ushers . We entered shady lanes and umbrageous groves ; we perceived extensive prospects , and saw the winding of romantic Etreams ; a curtain seemed drawn from before the scenes of

    nature ; and my spirits rose as I gazed on new objects , and saw earth spread wide and free around . At first this only animated me to a keener resolVe to fly ; but as we went on , a vague sentiment possessed my' soul . The sky-larks winged up to heaven , and the swallows skimmed the geeen earth ; I felt happy because nature was gay , and all things tree and at peace . We turned from a lane , redolent w , ith

    honeysuckle * into a little wood , whose short , thick turf , was interspersed wit& moss , and starred with flowers . Just as we emerged , I saw a little railing , a rustic green gate , and a cottage clustered over with woodbine and jessamine , standing secluded among , yet peeping out from , £ he over > 8 hadowing trees , A little peasant boy threw < ipen the gate , and we drove up to the cottage door .

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    Falkner . 231

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/41/