The Modern story teller. Contents. The history of the three brothers. The history of the three sisters. The contrast. Fatal effects of delay. The... (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"These Three Brothers, from their earliest infancy, were play-mates and companions. They had never been sent out of their father's house, either to nurse or even to a school: as Mrs. Smithson, their mother, whose education rendered her perfectly equal to the task, undertook to put them through the first rudiments of learning, and to prepare them for whatever studies a tutor might afterwards direct them to. Whether it was their constant society from their earliest childhood; in the course of which, notwithstanding the difference of two years, between the age of Cassander and that of Eugene, each shared invariably in the studies as well as the amusements of the other two; or whether it was the natural bent of their dispositions, I know not, but they were remarkable for bearing towards each other a degree of affection that is rarely to be found amongst brothers in general. In their sports they were inseparable; the inequality of their number was never an obstacle to their all partaking of the same pastime, though it might originally have been intended but for two; and notwithstanding there would now and then arise a trifling dispute amongst them concerning their play, all differences were usually settled and reconciled before the conclusion of the game, so that they never parted from each other in a pet; but, on the contrary, after they were tired of play, it was no uncommon thing to see them linked all three arm in arm, sauntering up and down the garden walks, which were..." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.