Japhet in Search of a Father

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Фредерик Марриет. Japhet in Search of a Father

Part 1—Chapter I

Part 1—Chapter II

Part 1—Chapter III

Part 1—Chapter IV

Part 1—Chapter V

Part 1—Chapter VI

Part 1—Chapter VII

Part 1—Chapter VIII

Part 1—Chapter IX

Part 1—Chapter X

Part 1—Chapter XI

Part 1—Chapter XII

Part 1—Chapter XIII

Part 1—Chapter XIV

Part 1—Chapter XV

Part 1—Chapter XVI

Part 1—Chapter XVII

Part 1—Chapter XVIII

Part 1—Chapter XIX

Part 1—Chapter XX

Part 1—Chapter XXI

Part 1—Chapter XXII

Part 1—Chapter XXIII

Part 1—Chapter XXIV

Part 2—Chapter I

Part 2—Chapter II

Part 2—Chapter III

Part 2—Chapter IV

Part 2—Chapter V

Part 2—Chapter VI

Part 2—Chapter VII

Part 2—Chapter VIII

Part 2—Chapter IX

Part 2—Chapter X

Part 2—Chapter XI

Part 2—Chapter XII

Part 2—Chapter XIII

Part 2—Chapter XIV

Part 2—Chapter XV

Part 2—Chapter XVI

Part 2—Chapter XVII

Part 2—Chapter XVIII

Part 2—Chapter XIX

Part 2—Chapter XX

Part 2—Chapter XXI

Part 2—Chapter XXII

Part 2—Chapter XXIII

Part 2—Chapter XXIV

Part 2—Chapter XXV

Part 2—Chapter XXVI

Part 2—Chapter XXVII

Part 2—Chapter XXVIII

Part 2—Chapter XXIX

Part 2—Chapter XXX

Part 3—Chapter I

Part 3—Chapter II

Part 3—Chapter III

Part 3—Chapter IV

Part 3—Chapter V

Part 3—Chapter VI

Part 3—Chapter VII

Part 3—Chapter VIII

Part 3—Chapter IX

Part 3—Chapter X

Part 3—Chapter XI

Part 3—Chapter XII

Part 3—Chapter XIII

Part 3—Chapter XIV

Part 3—Chapter XV

Part 3—Chapter XVI

Part 3—Chapter XVII

Part 3—Chapter XVIII

Part 3—Chapter XIX

Part 3—Chapter XX

Part 3—Chapter XXI

Part 3—Chapter XXII

Part 3—Chapter XXIII

Part 3—Chapter XXIV

Part 3—Chapter XXV

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A tall, fresh-coloured, but hectic looking young man, stood behind the counter, making up prescriptions, and a dirty lad, about thirteen years old, was standing near with his basket to deliver the medicines to the several addresses, as soon as they were ready. The young man behind the counter, whose name was Brookes, was within eighteen months of serving his time, when his friends intended to establish him on his own account, and this was the reason which induced Mr Cophagus to take me, that I might learn the business, and supply his place when he left. Mr Brookes was a very quiet, amiable person, kind to me and the other boy who carried out the medicines, and who had been taken by Mr Cophagus, for his food and raiment. The porter told Mr Brookes who I was, and left me. “Do you think that you will like to be an apothecary?” said Mr Brookes to me, with a benevolent smile.

“Yes; I do not see why I should not,” replied I.

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I soon found out that we were not only well fed, but in every other point well treated, and I was very comfortable and happy. Mr Brookes instructed me in the art of labelling and tying up, and in a very short time I was very expert; and as Timothy predicted, the rudiments were once more handed over to him. Mr Cophagus supplied me with good clothes, but never gave me any pocket-money, and Timothy and I often lamented that we had not even a halfpenny to spend.

Before I had been many months in the shop, Mr Brookes was able to leave when any exigence required his immediate attendance. I made up the pills, but he weighed out the quantities in the prescriptions: if, therefore anyone came in for medicines, I desired them to wait the return of Mr Brookes, who would be in very soon. One day, when Mr Brookes was out, and I was sitting behind the counter, Timothy sitting on it, and swinging his legs to and fro, both lamenting that we had no pocket-money, Timothy said, “Japhet, I’ve been puzzling my brains how we can get some money, and I’ve hit it at last; let you and I turn doctors; we won’t send all the people away who come when Mr Brookes is out, but we’ll physic them ourselves.” I jumped at the idea, and he had hardly proposed it, when an old woman came in, and addressing Timothy, said, “That she wanted something for her poor grandchild’s sore throat.”

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