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The Gods and Mr. Perrin; A Tragi-Comedy

The Gods and Mr. Perrin; A Tragi-Comedy

Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150786523
ISBN13: 9781150786525
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.14 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1911 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER Xin MB. PEEBIN LISTENS WHILE THEY ALL MAKE SPEECHES I. THE next day, its brilliant sun and bard, shining cold, brought in its train great things. The last day of the Christmas term was in some ways greater than the last day of the summer term, because it was a more private family affair. One addressed one's ancestors, one arrayed one's traditions, one fashioned one's history, with flags and flowers and orations, but it was in the midst of the family that it was done. Parents--mothers and fathers and cousins--were indeed there, but they, too, must recognize that it was not for their immediate individual Johnny or Charles that these things were done, but rather for the great worship and recognition of Sir Marmaduke Boniface. Sir Marmaduke Boniface has hitherto received no mention in this slender history, but bis importance in any chronicle of Moffatt's cannot be over-estimated. He was a Cornish magnate, living and dying some hundred years ago, growing rich in the pursuit of jam, building large stone mansions out of that same delicacy, fat, pompous, and fading at last into a heavy stone monument in the corner of the church at the bottom of the Brown Hill--a great man in his day and in his place, amongst other things the founder of Moffatt's. It was not very long ago; outside the confines of Cornwall he had been perhaps but vaguely recognized--perchance, perchance, the surest foundation of an extravagant record.... No matter, here we have our tradition, and let us make the best possible use of it. But this Marmadukery--a hideous word, but it serves--spread far beyond that stout originator. It was the spirit of the public school, the esprit de corps signified by the School song (it began Procul in Cornubia, and was violently shouted at stated intervals...

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