Blackwoods Magazine Vol 194

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366559060
Total Pages : 888 pages
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Download or read book Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 193 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 193: January-June 1913 There was general merriment at this, for Mr Carmyle was patriarchal, both in appearance and habits. But it did nothing to soothe the nerves of The Freak himself, who happened at the moment to be standing shyly upon one leg outside the door, endeavouring to summon up sufficient courage to walk in. He was a small sandy-haired boy with shrewd blue eyes and a most disarming smile, and he belonged to a not uncommon and distinctly unlucky class. There are boys who are shy and who look shy. Such are usually left to themselves, and gradually attain to confidence. There are boys who are bumpti ous and behave bumptiously. Such are usually put through a brief disciplinary course by their friends, and ultimately achieve respectability. And there are boys who are shy, but who, through sheer self consciousness and a desire to conceal their shyness, behave bumptiously. The way of such is hard. Public school discip linary methods do not discrim inate between the sheep and the goats. Variations from the normal, whether voluntary or involuntary, are all corrected by the same methods. Un conventionality of every kind is rebuked by stern moralists who have been through the mill themselves, and are con vinced that it would be ungenerous to deprive the succeeding generation of the benefits which have produced such brilliant results in their own case. 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.