Boys and Girls from Thackeray

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Kate Dickinson Sweetser. Boys and Girls from Thackeray

Boys and Girls from Thackeray

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PREFACE

K.D.S. NEW YORK, 1907. HENRY ESMOND. THE VIRGINIANS. BECKY SHARP AT SCHOOL. CUFF'S FIGHT WITH "FIGS" GEORGE OSBORNE—RAWDON CRAWLEY. CLIVE AND ETHEL NEWCOME. ARTHUR PENDENNIS. CAROLINE

HENRY ESMOND

THE VIRGINIANS

BECKY SHARP AT SCHOOL

BARBARA PINKERTON

CUFFS FIGHT WITH "FIGS"

GEORGE SEDLEY OSBORNE

GEORGE OSBORNE—RAWDON CRAWLEY

GEORGE SEDLEY OSBORNE

CLIVE AND ETHEL NEWCOME

MARTHA HONEYMAN

B. NEWCOME

MAJOR NEWCOME:

CHARLES HONEYMAN

MARTHA HONEYMAN

ARTHUR PENDENNIS

CAROLINE

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Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Published by Good Press, 2019

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"When I am gone," Father Holt said, "you may push away the buffet, so that no one may fancy that an exit has been made that way; lock the door; place the key—where shall we put the key?—under 'Chrysostom' on the book shelf; and if any ask for it, say I keep it there, and told you where to find it, if you had need to go to my room. The descent is easy down the wall into the ditch; and so once more farewell, until I see thee again, my dear son."

And with this the intrepid Father mounted the buffet with great agility and briskness, stepped across the window, lifting up the bars and framework again from the other side, and only leaving room for Harry Esmond to stand on tiptoe and kiss his hand before the casement closed, the bars fixing as firmly as ever, seemingly, in the stone arch overhead.

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