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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Young Lord and Other Tales, by Camilla Toulmin, et al This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Young Lord and Other Tales to which is added Victorine Durocher Author: Camilla Toulmin Release Date: January 22, 2008 [eBook #24403] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE YOUNG LORD AND OTHER TALES*** Transcribed from the 1849-1850 Darton and Co. edition by David Price, ccx074@pglaf.org {The Young Lord's accident: p0.jpg} THE YOUNG LORD, AND Other Tales. BY MRS. CROSLAND, (LATE CAMILLA TOULMIN.) TO WHICH IS ADDED, VICTORINE DUROCHER. BY MRS. SHERWOOD. LONDON: DARTON AND CO., HOLBORN HILL. 1849-50. LONDON: GEORGE WOODFALL AND SON, ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET. {Decorative title page: p1.jpg} THE YOUNG LORD; AND THE TRIAL OF ADVERSITY. BY MRS. NEWTON CROSLAND, (LATE CAMILLA TOULMIN.) THE YOUNG LORD. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust do corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. "But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."--ST. MATT. vi. 19, 20, 21. "How can we reward the little boy who has so honestly brought me the bracelet I lost at church yesterday?" said Mrs. Sidney to her only son Charles, who was now passing the Midsummer vacation with his widowed mother, at a pretty cottage in Devonshire, which had been the home of his early years. "I do not think people should be rewarded for common honesty," said Charles; "and the clasp contained such an excellent likeness of papa, whom every one in the village knew, that it would have been unsafe as well as dishonest for him not to have delivered it up." "I am sorry to find, Charles," said Mrs. Sidney, "that school has not weakened those selfish feelings which have so often caused me pain. You seem to me to think that every trifling gift I bestow upon another is robbing you; and, worse than all, I find you constantly wresting
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