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Title: Tales from Maria Edgeworth;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849 Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921 Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920, ill
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Publisher: (London) W. Gardner, Darton & co.
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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;wa;tcNCT.wuglgT R. GRESHAM, a Bristol merchant,who had, by honourable industry andeconomy, accumulated a considerablefortune, retired from business to a newhouse which he had built upon theDowns, near Clifton. Mr. Gresham,however, did not imagine that a newhouse alone could make him happy. Hedid not purpose to live in idleness and extravagance, forsuch a life would have been equally incompatible withhis habits and his principles. He was fond of children ;and as he had no sons, he determined to adopt one of hisrelations. He had two nephews, and he invited both ofthem to his house, that he might have an opportunity ofjudging of their dispositions, and of the habits which theyhad acquired. Hal and Benjamin, Mr. Greshams nephews, were aboutten years old. They had been educated very differently.Hal was the son of the elder branch of the family ; hisfather was a gentleman, who spent rather more than hecould afford ; and Hal, from the example of the servantsin his fathers family, with whom

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