Cousin Phillis - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Books -  - 9798615898334 - February 23, 2020
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Cousin Phillis

It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the independence of lodgings. I do not think I ever was so satisfied and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, I sate down in a little three-cornered room above a pastry-cook's shop in the county town of Eltham. My father had left me that afternoon, after delivering himself of a few plain precepts, strongly expressed, for my guidance in the new course of life on which I was entering. I was to be a clerk under the engineer who had undertaken to make the little branch line from Eltham to Hornby. My father had got me this situation, which was in a position rather above his own in life; or perhaps I should say...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 23, 2020
ISBN13 9798615898334
Pages 80
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 5 mm   ·   127 g
Language English  

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