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His frequently expressed anxiety about the impression they were making upon the reader was not always an affectation. There is a real solicitude in the confidences concerning William Ravenshoe upon his sudden promotion from the stable to the drawing-room of Ravenshoe Manor.
On the day of the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race, when Charles rowed three in the winning boat, Densil Ravenshoe died, after two days' illness. Old James Horton's death occurred at the same time. Charles hurried home in time for the funeral, and when all was over a servant came up to him, and asked him would he see Mr. Ravenshoe in the library?
I. Charles Loses His Brother and His Home In 1820 Densil lost both his father and mother, and found himself, at the age of thirty-seven, master of Ravenshoe an estate worth £10,000 a year and master of himself. Densil was an only son. His father, Peter Ravenshoe, had married Alicia, daughter of Charles, Earl of Ascot. Mrs. Ravenshoe bore Densil two sons: Cuthbert, born 1826; Charles, born 1831.
These two books were their author's favourites among his own novels, and Charles Ravenshoe was one of his two favourite characters. It has been said that "Ravenshoe" is "alive the expression of a man who worked both with heart and brain," and few would care to dispute that opinion.
On his return in 1858 he devoted himself industriously to literature, and wrote a number of novels of much more than average merit, including Geoffrey Hamlyn , The Hillyars and the Burtons , Ravenshoe , and Austin Elliot . Of these Ravenshoe is generally regarded as the best.
The remark is entirely true of nearly everything in Geoffry Hamlyn and of three-fourths of The Hillyars and the Burtons, but to Ravenshoe it applies in a more limited degree, and to some of the later novels scarcely ever.
His soul was made for the noblest society; he had in a short life exhausted the capabilities of this world; wherever there is knowledge, wherever there is virtue, wherever there is beauty, he will find a home. Ravenshoe. By HENRY KINGSLEY, Author of "Geoffry Hamlyn." Boston: Ticknor & Fields.
One other inmate of Ravenshoe must be mentioned this was little Mary Corby, who was saved miraculously from the wreck of the Warren Hastings when Charles was about ten.
On the night Charles was born his mother lay dying, and Densil swore to her he would keep the promise he had made. And to this vow he was faithful, in spite of the indignation of Father Mackworth, the resident Catholic priest at Ravenshoe.
Returning in 1859, he wrote the admirable Australian story of Geoffrey Hamlyn, which, with Ravenshoe two years later, contains most of his work that can be called really first rate.
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