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When a boy he had been intimate in the Percy family; but he had been long absent at school and at the university; they had seen him only during the vacations, and since his late return to the country. Though Mr.
The first of these was a city of 100,000 persons, and its principal business was shipbuilding. Scarborough was nothing more than a seaside resort, to which each summer and at Christmas were attracted thousands of Englishmen who sought to spend their vacations near the water.
So when he finally had in his hands a dealer's contract covering the Province of British Columbia he put the matter out of his mind except for occasional day-dreamings upon it in idle moments and gave himself whole-heartedly to serving the house of Henderson. Time passed uneventfully enough. June went its way with its brides and flowers. July drove folk upon vacations to the seaside resorts.
In the vacations, he took a trip into Vermont, a romantic mountain state, where he opened a writing school at a little country village; and another into the New York State, where he engaged himself in a similar way at a small town on the banks of the lovely Hudson river. At college, in spite of his rough western dress and manners, he earned for himself the reputation of a thoroughly good fellow.
Her adopted brother was still in the North, and strange to say he did not share her feelings; his sympathies were with the South, and although he was too young to take any leading part in the events there about to transpire, yet year after year when he spent his vacations at home, he attended the hustings and political meetings, and there he learned to consider the sentiment, "My country right or wrong," as a proper maxim for political action.
He has resumed his fondness for the daughters; and their brother, a fine youth at Cambridge, is happy in spending his vacations with his family, to whom he is become tenderly attached. He has had his own principles and character much raised by the conversation and example of Dr. Barlow, who contrives to be at Aston Hall as much as possible when Sir George is there.
"Oh, that's easy enough," said young Bates, the master. "You'll only have to work out of hours as a carpenter, take odd jobs in your vacations, live plainly, and there you are." In England there are few schools where such a plan would be practicable; but in rough-and-ready America, where self-help is no disgrace, there are many, and they are all well attended.
Here would be a settlement-worker, burning with a message, but unable to draw a character or to write dialogue; here would be a business-man, who had studied up the dialect of the region where he spent his summer vacations, and whose style was so crude that one winced as he turned the pages; here would be a poor bookkeeper, or a type-writer, or other cog in the business machine, who had read of the fortunes made by writers of fiction, and had spent all his hours of leisure for a year in composing a tale of the grand monde, or some feeble imitation of the sugar-coated "historical romance" of the hour.
"Well, Armstrong," began Doddridge, "where are you going to spend the vacation?" "Vacation!" answered Armstrong; "vacations are over for me." "You're not going to work for your living at once?" inquired Berkeley. "I'm going to work to-morrow," replied Armstrong, emphatically: "I'm going down to New York to enter a law office."
"Joking runs in the family, and we've all inherited the tendency. One time my father but, as my friend Kipling says, that's another story. This dog, you see this Robert Shafto has cast a shadow over my vacations for more than a year. He killed my kitten, and ate my Venetian lace collar it didn't even give him indigestion.
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