Inhaltsangabe
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. 1829. Excerpt: ... CHARLES HERBERT, A COLLEGE STORY. It was a beautiful, mild, summer evening, when a lady, and a fine, animated looking boy, were seen walking slowly through a little green lane that led to a wood. There was an expression of deep anxiety in the mother's face, for it was a mother and her son, and she was to part with him on the morrow. He was her delight, her dearest earthly hope, and her heart was full of grief at the thought of the approaching separation. She wanted to give a few parting words of advice to her son; but when she would speak, she found that she could not utter herself. A dreadful oppression came over her, and she thought that perhaps if she were in the open air she might recover herself; she had therefore asked him to walk with her to the wood. Charles Herbert was a true spirit of gladness; he was full of sweetness and intelligence; the fountain of happiness in his innocent heart seemed sparkling up into his clear, bright, blue eye. He loved his mother with his whole heart; and gay and volatile as he was, a look from her could sober him in a moment, a reproof would bring the tears to his eyes; and if he saw her sad, he could not be happy till he had, by his efforts to please her, chased away the clouds from her brow and restored her serenity. "Tomorrow you leave me, my dear boy," said his mother, as she seated herself on the grass under a favorite old oak, where she had often sat down with him before; where she had brought him in her arms when he could not go alone, and set him down among the wild flowers; and where her maternal heart had pronounced that earth did not bear on its bosom aught so sweet and lovely as her own bright, laughing boy, that there were no flowers so beautiful as his golden ringlets, and no perfume so sweet as his balm...
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