From One Generation to Another By: Hugh Stowell Scott, Henry Seton Merriman

From One Generation to Another

• Author : Hugh Stowell Scott, Henry Seton Merriman
• Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
• ISBN-13 : 9781459098862

About From One Generation to Another

The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint.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: Chapter III. MERCURY " The evil is sown, but tlie destruction thereof is not yet come." James Edward Makerstone Agar was not at the age of five the material from which the heroes of children's stories are evolved. He was not a good boy, nor a clean, nor particularly interesting. He was, however, honest—and that is deja quelque chose. He was as far removed from the "misunderstood" type as could be wished; and he was quite happy. Before his step-mother had laid aside the title and glory of a bride, he had, by his deadly honesty, made her understand that even a child of five requires what she could not give him—namely, logic. Had she been clever enough to reason logically, she might have undermined the little fellow's innate honesty of character, despite the fact that he lacked a child's chief incentive to learn from its mother, namely, the sympathy of heredity. Gradually and steadily Mrs. Agar " gave him up," to make use of her own expression. She was one of those women who either fear or despise that which they do not understand. She could scarcely fear Jim, so she persuaded herself that he was stupid and unattractive. At this time there came another influence tomilitate against any excess of love between Jim and liis step-mother. It came to her, for he was ignorant of it. And this was the knowledge that before long the little heir's undisputed reign in the nursery would come to an end. With a suburban horror of being a long distance from the chemist, Mrs. Agar protested that she could not possibly remain at Staghohne during the ensuing winter, and that her child must be born at Clapham. It was vain to argue or reason, and at last the squire was forced to swallow this second humiliation, which was quite beyond his wife's comprehension. lie only dared to hint that al...

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