Boys and girls from Thackeray . e, but the old gen-tleman received him with very cold looks, and wouldscarcely give him his forefinger to shake. He called asecond time, but the valet said his master was not at home. So Pen went back to Fair-Oaks. True, he had retrievedhis failure, had won his honours, but he came back to hishome a very different fellow from the bright-faced youthwho had gone out into college life some years before. Heno longer laughed, sang, or rollicked about the house asof old; he had tasted of the fruit of the awful Tree of Lifewhich from the beginning had tempted all manki
Boys and girls from Thackeray . e, but the old gen-tleman received him with very cold looks, and wouldscarcely give him his forefinger to shake. He called asecond time, but the valet said his master was not at home. So Pen went back to Fair-Oaks. True, he had retrievedhis failure, had won his honours, but he came back to hishome a very different fellow from the bright-faced youthwho had gone out into college life some years before. Heno longer laughed, sang, or rollicked about the house asof old; he had tasted of the fruit of the awful Tree of Lifewhich from the beginning had tempted all mankind, andwhich had changed Arthur Pendennis the light-heartedboy into a man. Young, he is, of course, and still awaitingthe development which lifes deeper experiences are tobring, but nevertheless he is not again to taste the joy, thezest, or the enthusiasm which come to careless boyhood. Arthur Pendennis is now a competitor among the ranksof men striving after lifes prizes, and this narrative of hisboyhood ends. 335 CAROLINE 337. Miss Caroline and Becky. CAROLINE SINCE the time of Cinderella the First there havebeen many similar instances in real life of the perse-cution of youth by family injustice and cruelty,and no case more strikingly similar than that ofMiss Caroline Brandenburg Gann, whose youthfulcareer was one of monotonous hardship and injustice untilthe arrival of her fairy prince. The story is a short one to relate, but to live through thedays and months of sixteen unhappy years seemed an eternalprocess to the young heart beating high with hopes whichmust constantly be stifled, and give place to bitter disap-pointment. But to go back for a moment to the time when LouisXVIIL was restored a second time to the throne of hisfather, and all the English who had money or leisure rushedover to the Continent. At that time there lived in a cer-tain boarding-house at Brussels a lady who was called ; and her daughter, a genteel young widow, whobore the name of Mrs. Welle
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