CHAPTER I.
The Reverend Augustin Ambrose would gladly have given
up taking pupils. He was growing old and his
sight was beginning to trouble him; he was very weary
of Thucydides, of Homer, of th...
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The verdict of literary historians and academic critics upon the fiction writers of the years between 1883 and 1909--the period when Francis Marion Crawford was writing novels--has long since been ren...
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