Dr. Jolliffe's Boys
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This a very enjoyable book about life in a boy's boarding school in the. late nineteenth century. Despite school-rules, the boys get out of.
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Category: Author:novel
This a very enjoyable book about life in a boy's boarding school in the. late nineteenth century. Despite school-rules, the boys get out of.
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Category: Author:novel
I pushed my writing aside and tilted the lamp-shade, as footsteps sounded on the landing. The next moment I had jumped to my feet, for a tall, lean man, with his square-cut, clean-shaven face sun-baked to the hue of coffee, entered and extended both hands, with a cry
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I placed a whisky and soda before the Rev. J. D. Eltham, also sliding the tobacco jar nearer to his hand. The refined and sensitive face of the clergy-man offered no indication of the truculent character of the man. His scanty fair hair, already gray over the temples, was silken and soft-looking; in appearance he was indeed a typ...
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Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed whi...
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Category: Author:Anthony Trollope
SCANDAL Dr. Wortle's school was a proper Victorian establishment for boys. Therefore, imagine the alarm created when it was discovered that Mr. Peacocke, a teacher there, might have illegally married Mrs. Peacocke, the housemother. Bigamy might be involved What is Doctor Wortle to do? Especially since it would appear that, under the ci...
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