Half a Life time Ago

By: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Book Excerpt: umberlandstatesmen--just, independent, upright; not given to much speaking;kind-hearted, but not demonstrative; disliking change, and new ways, and new people; sensible and shrewd; each household self-contained, and its members having little curiosity as to their neighbours, withwhom they rarely met for any social intercourse, save at the statedtimes of sheep-shearing and Christmas; having a certain kind of soberpleasure in amassing money, which occasionally made them miserable(as they call miserly people up in the north) in their old age;reading no light or ephemeral literature, but the grave, solid booksbrought round by the pedlars (such as the "Paradise Lost" and"Regained, '" "The Death of Abel," "The Spiritual Quixote," and "ThePilgrim's Progress"), were to be found in nearly every house: themen occasionally going off laking, i.e. playing, i.e. drinking fordays together, and having to be hunted up by anxious wives, who darednot leave their husbands to the chances of the wild precipitousroadsRead M

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798714698972
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"