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Part 1. The Descent
Part 1. The Descent - Chapter 1. In The Making
_ PART I. THE DESCENT
CHAPTER I. IN THE MAKING
Non his juventus orta parentibus infecit aequor sanguine Punico.
--HORACE.
"Such as I am, sir--no great subject for a boaster,
I admit--you see in me a product of my time, sir,
and of very worthy parents, I assure you."
--EZEKIEL JOY.
As a very small lad, at home in Tarn Regis, I had but one close chum, George Stairs, and he went off with his father to Canada, while I was away for my first term at Elstree School. Then came Rugby, where I had several friends, but the chief of them was Leslie Wheeler. Just why we should have been close friends I cannot say, but I fancy it was mainly because Leslie was such a handsome fellow, and always seemed to cut a good figure in everything he did; while I, on the other hand, excelled in nothing, and was not brilliant even in the expression of my discontent, which was to
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