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Title: Lewis Arundel; or, The railroad of life
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Smedley, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1818-1864 Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, ill
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Publisher: London : Virtue, Hall, & Virtue
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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erved to exhilarate both horse and jockey tosuch a degree that, ere long, a violent game at romps was esta-blished, which ended in papas perching his youthful son on hisshoulder, and, still influenced by the equestrian hypothesis, gal-loping round the Ioom with him, and clearing the sofa at a flyingleap in the course of their raj^id career, to Lauras undisgiiisedterror. There, my dear Charles, that will do, you will break thechilds neck and your own also, to a certainty if you do such wildthings; now ring for nmse to take him, I want to talk to youabout this letter. Tarley, however, by no means appro^ing of this arrange-ment, and insisting strenuously upon a prolongation of his ride,his father, who it must be confessed rather spoiled him thanotherwise, complied with his demand for • Gee-gee more ! byagain dashing round the room with him, and continuing his head-long course till he had deposited his rider within the augustprecincts of the nursery, where the precocious Ducrow, falling
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^M/z4^ie- ^tC^c^^^i^A^ ^,^/%,^fe?^ jf-ti/M- OR, THE RAILROAD OF LIFE. 475 under the l^aleful glance of an autocratic nm-se, subsided into astate of infantine depression, and was heard no more. Leicester, having retm-ned to the apartment in which he hadleft his wife, flung himself, in a state of apparent exhaustion,upon the sofa he had lately jumped over, exclaiming— Thatchild will be the death me, Im certain of it; where he can getall this dreadful energy of character from I cant conceive : itmust come from the Peyton side, for Im certain that even at hisearly age, I had a much more clearly defined idea of the dulcefar nienie than that unnatural little essence of quicksilver pos-sesses ; by Jove, if he should turn out as fast when he grows upas he appears now before he has begun growing at all, it will bean awful look out for our grey liairs. Nonsense, Charley, youve energy enough when you care toexert it j in fact it is all your own doing, you know you delightto excite the child. B

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