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East and West, Or, Once Upon a Time (Paperback)

By: John Frazer Corkran (Author)


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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: 68 CHAPTER III. Master Jerry Cobye would have been a dull boy indeed, if, with such opportunities for improving his mind, and under such rare influences, he did not make more than ordinary progress. There was the refined gentleman upstairs, with his patience, his impassioned tenderness, his nobleness of manner, gently rolling off the thick folds of darkness, which first obscuring would finally have quenched, as if with poisonous miasma, the young spirit?there was the kindly, unpretending, little family drudge, Cicely, helping him with his lessons, and there were Obady and Just, each holding him by a hand, and pulling him by main force up the steep, yet flowery hills of blank verse; for they settled between them, that with care and drilling, Jerry would fillwell enough the comparatively unimportant woman's part; for so these young gentlemen dared to treat the role of Belvidera. They thought that by cutting down the part of the heroine, by leaving her as little to say as possible, and by not bringing her in mad at the close, they could manage to get over their greatest difficulty. Jerry's appearance was tried in a dress of Cicely's, and, as Obady declared, passed muster. The long curling hair was like Samson's, Jerry's strong point. His voice was pronounced good, and with his experience of the boards, there could be no fear for their male heroine, if only the difficulty of learning to read could be got over in due time. Obady, indeed, felt provoked now and then to bring to aid Mr. Bass' method of hammering it in; but Master Jerry furnished him with reasons for not repeating the experiment, which it is only doing justice to Obady's clear judgment to acknowledge that he considered conclusive. To mask so much activity and excitement from the keen eyes of Deborah required cons...



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