Identifier: boysathome00adam (find matches)
Title: Boys at home
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Adams, C. (Charlotte) Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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shehad done no such thing. Quick as lightning Edward rushed on, calling to theboy to desist; but he went on beating the child, whollyregardless of Edwards cry. Leave off; let the child go! exclaimed Edward; or I will treat you in the same manner you do her. But the boy paid no further attention to this threat,than to seize hold of the childs arm, and spin her roundand round, in a way to render her perfectly dizzy. Edward darted upon the boy, and with a stick he hadin his hand, inflicted summary punishment upon him. Hegave the boy a severe beating, and thrust him with vio-lence on to a bank by the road-side. Then taking thelittle girl by the hand, he led her to a cottage not far off,which she said was her home. In the evening, when Edward returned to the villa, hismind was so fully occupied with all that had occurred con-nected with his new situation, and he had so much to tellof Mr. Jackson and his fellow-clerks, that the adventureof the morning wholly escaped his recollection, and he
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THE PROTECTOU OF THE INNOCENT. rm NEW YOMPUBLIC LIBRi^RY ASTaR, LEISOX ANDTILDEN FOTJKBATIONS R ^ BOYS AT HOME. 233 said nothing about it; but the next day, on his returnfrom Stoneleigh, the affair was very unpleasantly broughtto his recollection. As soon as he had dined, his fatherinformed him that Mark Dennis had been to lodge a com-j^laint against him, for violently assaulting his son ; andthat he was going to summon Edward to apj^ear beforethe nearest magistrate to answer the charge. Mr. Gordonsaid he was startled at the accusation, and told Dennisthat he must be labouring under some mistake, as he wassure his son had not been guilty of the conduct imputedto him. ^ And I spoke the more positively, continued Mr.Gordon, because I felt assured that if anything of thekind had occurred, you would have informed me of it. Edward was consternated by what his father told him ;and immediately related all that had occurred respectingthe little girl, both as regarded the brutal treatment sheh

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