Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 715

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Various. Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 715

FOREIGNERS' ENGLISH

FROM DAWN TO SUNSET

PART I

CHAPTER THE FOURTH

CHAPTER THE FIFTH

PART II. – NOON

CHAPTER THE FIRST

THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE AND ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEERS

TIM HARGATON'S COURTSHIP

CLERKS. BY ONE OF THEM

A LADY'S JOURNEY IN MOLDAVIA

THE CHANGES OF COLOUR IN THE CHAMELEON

MY SWEETHEART

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'Father, where do you go away all day?' It was Charlie who spoke, clambering on his father's knee.

'I drive the coach, boy.'

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Sir Vincent gazed at him. Ay, the father's rose lay upon his heart, his 'Lady Deb,' his darling; but that wilful rogue, that youthful inheritor of all his own wild freaks and follies, that young ne'er-do-weel, Charles Stuart Fleming, the plague of Enderby, was his own soul, the idol of his darkened life. Sir Vincent pushed him roughly away, and laid his hand on Deborah's fair hair. 'Love thee better? No; thou graceless rogue!' he said. 'I love thee both alike. Sweet Deb, thou art my darling too. Now be off with you both; and see that there is no more gipsying or ruffling it while I am away; for Jordan Dinnage shall have orders, if you disobey, to flog ye both with the rope's end; for nought but that, I fear me, will curb the villainy of either one. Good-bye, sweet hearts, an' see that ye stir not beyond the gates.'

The gipsies had vanished from that part of the country; not a trace of them was left; for they knew Sir Vincent Fleming well, and fled betimes. But Sir Vincent had not been gone three hours, when the restless roving Charlie was scouring round the park on his pony, and longing for some fresh adventure and wider bounds. Deborah and little Meg Dinnage were running after him, and urging on the pony with many a whoop and yell, with torn frocks and streaming hair.

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