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From the book:It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the independence of lodgings. I do not think I ever was so satisfied and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, I sate down in a little three-cornered room above a pastry-cook's shop in the county town of Eltham. My father had left me that afternoon, after delivering himself of a few plain precepts, strongly expressed, for my guidance in the new course of life on which I was entering. I was to be a clerk under the engineer who had undertaken to make the little branch line from Eltham to Hornby. My father had got me this situation, which was in a position rather above his own in life; or perhaps I should say, above the station in which he was born and bred; for he was raising himself every year in men's consideration and respect. He was a mechanic by trade, but he had some inventive genius, and a great deal of perseverance, and had devised several valuable improvements in railway machinery. He did not do this for profit, though, as was reasonable, what came in the natural course of things was acceptable; he worked out his ideas, because, as he said, 'until he could put them into shape, they plagued him by night and by day.' But this is enough about my dear father; it is a good thing for a country where there are many like him. He was a sturdy Independent by descent and conviction; and this it was, I believe, which made him place me in the lodgings at the pastry-cook's.
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Classic Literature, Clergy, Cousins, Fiction, Social life and customs, Unrequited love, England, fiction, Clergy, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, Literature and fiction (general), British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Places
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Cousin Phillis
October 12, 2005, 1st World Library - Literary Society
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1421809273 9781421809274
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Cousin Phillis (Penguin Popular Classics)
October 1998, Penguin Books
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0140621946 9780140621945
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Cousin Phillis.: To which are added: Lois the Witch, The crooked branch, Curious if true, Right at last, The grey woman, Six weeks at Heppenheim, A dark night's work, The Shah's English gardener, French life, Crowley Castle, Two fragments of ghost stories.
1972, AMS Press
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- Knutsford ed. [1st AMS ed.] New York, Putnam, 1906.
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