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shocks. A young French footman named Gustave, who had been eneasced to wait on my Brother and me, - he passed afterwards into the service of my Father as valet and remained w until his death - was thought capable of sustaining Lon Hom a severe shock , *butieitewas@se veryrsewere™ that’ 7-0 ‘ourlereat: alarm , he was knocked all out of time by it . I was about nine years old when Dr Creuznach left to be married . M. Monton , a handsome young Frenchman,took places but proved “the worst. -Cutor we "ever "had, “for 0 us tO our own devices as often as he C formed an attachment fo ivant about the town where he lady. Eventually he transferred his affections to my French (Soverness, he Left could ; Meorder toe weal) = ra young cousins ' and then parted with us to marry and settle Vith her in Paris. He afterwards tried his hand at various 1 speculations - journalism among others - but invariab disastrous resul relations with him until his death . and I kept up my Though we had plenty of holidays and amusement ly with tS . However, there was no harm in the man , S no children could have been more strictly and simply brought up than we were, We "ad to rise and-turn into bed SARL , lessons of every kind , and we were not spared puni when our record was unsatisfactory in the matter of food > mone but the plainest was all that by no means in abundance . We had a frucal dinne 2 tea and a slice of cold meat was all that was allowed per, except when on many an evening the goodnatured F Boverness supplemented it with some of her port ion: 5 fast grower » @lways ravenous and inordinately sreedy shment Great severity was shown owed , and rat one; for sup- rench Being a to learn SS ee SPSS ET aa a A re i tr = ee at age eet en cme nine adeno ee eee eee