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Excerpt from Richard Gresham
Life began for Richard Gresham on a bright morning in June, when he was about nine years old. He was awake early that day, and saw the first gleam of sunshine creep into his room and broaden across the white counterpane. When it reached his hands, he jumped out of bed and ran to throw wide the curtains, so that the whole room was filled with the yellow light. Then he pattered over to the other side, where the windows looked toward the west, and he could see the river below ?ashing in the sun. Dick liked this side, especial] in the morning. He liked to hang over the sash, wato °ng the river as it hurried down to the great city. He liked to see James come out of the modest greenhouse, and putter about the garden. And he liked to think of the long hours to come in which he, little Dick Gresham, could do as he wished. Of course, he could not really do as he wished. Later people would get around him and interfere, and things would go wrong of them selves; but for the time being it always seemed that the world belonged to him.
This morning he did not loiter at the window only long enough to see the river, and give a hallo to plodding James. Then he began to scramble into his clothes, delighted to get ahead of Mrs. Jones, his nurse. She was usually the first cloud in his morning.
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