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Title: A Tale of a Lonely Parish
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Release Date: October 4, 2004 [eBook #13597]
Language: English
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A TALE OF A LONELY PARISH
by
F. MARION CRAWFORD
1886
TO My MOTHER
I DEDICATE THIS TALE A MEAN TOKEN OF A LIFELONG AFFECTION
CHAPTER I.
The Reverend Augustin Ambrose would gladly have given up taking pupils. He was growing old and his sight was beginning to trouble him; he was very weary of Thucydides, of Homer, of the works of Mr. Todhunter of which the green bindings expressed a hope still unrealised, of conic sections--even of his beloved Horace. He was tired of the stupidities of the dull young men who were sent to him because they could not "keep up", and he had long ceased to be surprised or interested by the remarks of the clever ones who were sent to him because their education had not prepared them for an English University. The dull ones could never be made to understand anythin