Boys and girls from Thackeray . I wish I could draw him foryou as he stands yonder looking the picture of good health,good spirits, and good-humour. Everybody likes him. Heis quite unafifected; always gay, always pleased, and hedraws more beautifully every day. When these letters were received by the good Colonel inIndia we can well imagine the joy that warmed his fondheart. He, himself, was comfortably settled in the onlyplace which would ever be home to him,—his son, theidol of his heart, was with Ethel, his darling. The objectsof his tenderest aflfection were gay, happy, together, and,best
Boys and girls from Thackeray . I wish I could draw him foryou as he stands yonder looking the picture of good health,good spirits, and good-humour. Everybody likes him. Heis quite unafifected; always gay, always pleased, and hedraws more beautifully every day. When these letters were received by the good Colonel inIndia we can well imagine the joy that warmed his fondheart. He, himself, was comfortably settled in the onlyplace which would ever be home to him,—his son, theidol of his heart, was with Ethel, his darling. The objectsof his tenderest aflfection were gay, happy, together, and,best of all, thinking of him. That he was not with themgave him no regrets; his love was too great for that. Thattheir youth was soon to give place to the soberer experiencesof life, gave him no pang of fear for them. Reading theirletters, the Colonel was filled with quiet contentment; theirfuture he could trust to the care of that Guiding Hand towhom he had entrusted his boy in childhoods earliest days. 293 ARTHUR PENDENNIS 295. Arthur Pendennis at Fair-Oaks. ARTHUR PENDENNIS EARLY in the Regency of George the Magnificentthere lived in a small town in the west of England,called Clavering, a gentleman whose name wasPendennis. At an earlier date Mr. Pendennishad exercised the profession of apothecary andsurgeon, and had even condescended to sell a plaster acrossthe counter of his humble shop, or to vend tooth-brushes,hair-powder, and London perfumery. And yet that littleapothecary was a gentleman with good education, and ofas old a family as any in the county of Somerset, He hada Cornish pedigree which carried the Pendennises back tothe time of the Druids. He had had a piece of Universityeducation, and might have pursued that career with honour,but in his second year at Oxford his father died insolvent,and he was obliged to betake himself to the trade which healways detested. For some time he had a hard strugglewith poverty, but his manners were so gentleman-like andsoothing that h
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