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Excerpt from Geoffrey Moncton: Or the Faithless Guardian
What was to be done with the incorrigible youth? Sir Robert ?ew into a passion - called him a coward - a disgrace to the name of Moncton.
My grandfather, who was a philosopher in his way, pleaded guilty to the first charge. From his cradle he had carefully avoided scenes of strife and violence, had been a quiet, industri ous boy at school, a sober plodding student at college, minding his own business, and troubling himself very little with the affairs of others. The sight of blood made him sick he hated the smell of gunpowder, and would make any sacrifice of time and trouble rather than come to blows. He now listened to the long cata logue of his demerits, which his angry progenitor poured forth against/ him, with such stoical indifference, that it nearly drew upon him the corporeal punishment which at all times he so much dreaded.
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