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Sybil Lennard, by the author of 'The young prima donna'.
Sybil Lennard by the author of 'The young prima donna' Author:Elizabeth Caroline Grey 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 III. " The golden age of youth! Oh happy golden age! thy limbs are strong, Thou boundest like the fawn amid its play. Thy speech is as the me... more »lody of song— Thy pulse lite waters on their cheerful way ! Beauty enrobes thee as a garment's fold ; And, as a spring within thy heart's recess. Well up, more precious than the sands of gold, Thy own great happiness!" Habt Hnr Albert, I soon discovered, was not Sybilla'e brother, but an orphan ward of Mr. Devereux, who had been an inmate of Oakleigh Court since the age of four years. He was completely a child of the family; the love of Mr. and Mrs. Devereux towards him being scarcely less tender than the affection they felt for their own little Sybil . His prospects were those of great affluence ; a large fortune and fine estate awaited his majority. Hitherto he had not been at school, but his education was carefully and skilfully forwarded by the clergyman, whose rectory was close to the park, and who was preparing him successfully for Eton, where he was soon to go. Every one seemed to adore Albert Len- nan), and no wonder, for he was in truth a delightful creature—I think I see him now as he was when first I beheld him, beautiful boy! tall and slight, but his form giving promise of muscular strength; then his bounding step, so free and graceful—every movement telling of his thorough breeding. How much of situation, as well as of character, can be traced in the walk and carriage! The upright form, the tread, firm and confident; at once distinguish the gentleman; the open, generous spirit walks abroad with his head aloft, his step assured. I never could embody nobility of mind, with a slouching gait and shuffling step. Though of a fair complexion, and with light brown hair, there was not a shade of effeminacy...« less