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Excerpt from Through Rome On: A Memoir of Christian and Extra-Christian Experience
Own in a very black lad, my special attendant; but we were sadly in want of additional savages, and F riday had no cannibal propensities for me to correct, but displayed a most Christian appe tite for beef-steak, and, in common with his mas ter, was compelled by domestic tyranny to wear civilised jacket and trousers. F rom eight to ten I imbibed Peter Parley. Near eleven, perhaps, a strong taste for ghosts was developed in me. To this era belong Mrs. Ratclifi'e's romances and 2718 T fires Spaniards. There were no such superlative ghosts then as we have now. How I should have revelled in T lee Wanderer, T [w Haunters and the Haunted, A Strange Story, and the collections of Mrs. Crowe and Mr. Robert Dale Owen l Zanoni did come in while my taste was yet fresh. I was strongly moved by Walpole's Castle of 0tranto, and in a less degree by some of the Ettrick Shepherd's stories. At twelve, J ames's String of Pearls and Ir ving's Alhambra were meet successors to the Arabian Nights. About the same time, I was fascinated by Kennedy's fine American novel Horseshoe Robinson Mr. Kennedy was a friend of my father's, and was regarded by me with a kind of fearful interest as the creator of such wonderful beings as Horse - shoe and Arthur Butler. I read and enjoyed Maria Edgeworth, too; a writer unhappily little known to young.
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