The Real World Author:Robert Herrick General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General History / United States / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Poetry / General Poetr... more »y / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III The little scene in the study marked the beginning of the end in the music-teacher's family. For months thereafter the jarring tempers of the household were more subdued: in their place succeeded a sour silence as of despair. From this time the boy began to piece together the fragments of talk that had hitherto fallen on unheeding ears. Little by little he learned certain facts about the family. His father's people had been poor farmers in a seacoast village of Maine, and his mother never let her children forget that she had been a Russell, third cousin of the Burton Russells; that her father had been the leading lawyer of Coffin's Falls; and that her brother was the pastor of the largest church in that New Hampshire town. Years later, when the boy saw for the first time the " Russell place," -a neat little house on the outskirts of Coffin's Falls, with its own little drive and stable, he failed to perceive the magnitude of difference that in his mother's eyes had separated the family of Pemberton Neck from the family of Coffin's Falls. His youthful imagination had pictured the prim little wooden house as an opulent brick mansion lying in the midst of ancestral acres. The other triumphs of the Russells also lost their glamour as he grew to know the world. The case beforethe Supreme Court at Washington, the term ...« less