IF anyone is interested, and following my rereading Stalky and Co, I
decided
to read Eric, or Little by Little as it is mentioned so often in the text.
I opened it up this morning and this is how it starts:
"
"Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!" cried a young boy, as he capered vigorously
about, and clapped his hands. "Papa and mamma will be home in a week
now, and then we shall stay here a little time, and _then_, and _then_,
I shall go to school."
The last words were enunciated with immense im****tance, as he stopped
his impromptu dance before the chair where his sober cousin Fanny was
patiently working at her crochet; but she did not look so much affected
by the announcement as the boy seemed to demand, so he again exclaimed,
"And then, Miss Fanny, I shall go to school."
"Well, Eric," said Fanny, raising her matter-of-fact quiet face from her
endless work, "I doubt, dear, whether you will talk of it with quite as
much joy a year hence."
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I have a terrible feeling that Eric is going to be another Little Lord
Fauntelroy but I could be mistaken.
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Any takers for a serialisation, or, is the thought too much to take?
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LdB
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