Boys and girls from Thackeray (1907) (14596570108)

Identifier: boysgirlsfromtha00swee (find matches)
Title: Boys and girls from Thackeray
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Sweetser, Kate Dickinson, d. 1939 Williams, George Alfred, 1875- illus
Subjects: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
Publisher: New York, Duffield & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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en filled withsuch different experiences since that time, now becameclose friends. They were both entered at the same collegeat Cambridge, hunted and shot together in the vacations,confided in each other; and when we last see them,fast becoming young men, they are deep in a quarrel aboutLady Janes daughter, with whom they were both, of course,in love. No further proof of approaching age is needed than aquarrel over a young lady, and the lads, George and Raw-don, now give place forever to men. Though the circum-stances of their lives had been unlike, though George had 217 BOYS AND GIRLS from THACKERAY had all the love that a devoted mother could give, and allthe luxury which money could supply: and Rawdon hadbeen without a mothers devotion; without the surroundingswhich had made Georges life luxurious,—on the thresholdof manhood we find them on an equal footing, entering lifesarena, strong of limb, glad of heart, eager for what manhoodwas to bring them. 218 CLIVE AND ETHELNEWCOME 219
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Clive and Ethel Newcome. CLIVE AND ETHELNEWCOME WHEN one is about to write the biography of acertain person, it seems but fair to give as itsbackground such facts concerning the herosantecedents as place the details of his life intheir proper setting. And so, having the honourto be the juvenile biographer of Mr. Clive Newcome, Ideem it wise to preface the story of his life with a briefaccount of events and persons antecedent to his birth. Thomas Newcome, Clives grandfather, had been aweaver in his native village, and brought the very bestcharacter for honesty, thrift, and ingenuity with him toLondon, where he was taken into the house of HobsonBrothers, cloth-manufacturers; afterwards Hobson & New-come. When Thomas Newcome had been some time inLondon, he quitted the house of Hobson, to begin businessfor himself. And no sooner did his business prosper thanhe married a pretty girl from his native village. Whatseemed an imprudent match, as his wife had no worldlygoods to bring him, tu