The Myopes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Myopes He went his own way, too, about the education of the children, having ideas on the subject novel enough to excuse a growing horror in spectators. Theo and Gertrude were schooled at home, under his own eye, without distinction of sex whether at work or at play, until the girl was full grown, when he sent them abroad, separately, to receive the polish of convention. It was then, feeling lonely and in need Of friend ship, that he first realized how completely he was outcast from such society as the district Offered. But one man Of a gentleman's rank came occasion ally to see him - Ettrick Jones, his Old college friend, the squire of a distant parish - and even that well-wisher used a tone of irritated remon strance, hinting that there were bounds to eccentricity. Though sensitive to the cold shoulder, he did not ascribe to his neighbours any active malignity. He was eccentric, he supposed, while they were normal, and there was an end of the matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.