My French master
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | s.l. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T09:56:24Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T09:56:24Z |
| dc.date.created | 1853 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3100 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3100 |
| dc.description.abstract | Header gives 1st ed. 1853 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.replaces | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2152 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | English fiction -- 19th century |
| dc.title | My French master |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 470358 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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My French Master by Elizabeth Gaskell [Chapter I] My father's house was in the country, seven miles away from the nearest town. He had been an officer in the navy; but as he had met with some accident that would disable him from' ever serving again, he gave up his commission, and his half-pay. He had a small private fortune, and my mother had not been penniless; so he purchased a house, and ten or twelve acres of land, and set himself up as an amateur farmer on a very small scale. My mother rejoiced over the very small scale of his operations; and when my father regretted, as he did very often, that no more land was to be purchased in the neighbourhood, I could see her setting herself a sum in her head, 'If on twelve acres he manages to lose a hundred pounds a year, what would be our loss on a hundred and fifty?' But when my father was pushed hard on the subject of the money he spent in his sailor-like farming, he had one constant retreat: 'Think of the health, and the pleasure we all . . .
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