My Boys (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. One sorrow never comes but brings an heir That may succeed as his inheritor. My father's will left the Grange and all the land belonging?more than eight hundred acres altogether?to my mother, and she had left it to me till Faith's eldest son should be of age. This arrangement she told me was made in accordance with a request of my father's; and though she seemed to think it hard on me to have to lose it, yet she said she did not like to go against his wish. I told her I was quite content, for that?unless I was very unfortunate?I certainly should have quite enough for a lonely old maid's wants. Of course I did not know then what a family I should have. We were very happy?my boys and I?in our dear old Grange, where the sun seemedto shine all the year round, and where the soft south wind brought up the sweet sea breezes?though we were quite two miles from the coast. Of course I don't mean to pretend that we had all smooth sailing, any more than other folks; we had our ups and downs, our joys and sorrows, like the rest of the world; but, thank God, the joys were many and long- lived, the sorrows few and frail; so on the whole we managed very well indeed. I gave my boys a happy childhood and youth; and they gave me plenty of joy and gladness in return. They were not much alike?scarcely more so than Faith and I had been?and I think that perhaps this had something to do with the great love between them, which grew with their growth, and never all their life long knew break or hindrance. They looked on Homerton Grange as their home, and on me as entirely belonging to them; which contented me asmuch as it did them, and I think it contented their father none the less. After a few years he had married again?a somewhat starchy, very handsome woman of a slightly ...