Geoffrey's Victory by Mrs Georgie Sheldon — page 42: what you’re looking at

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- 38: THE DEVELOPMENTS OF SEVERAL YEARS. losing it, that it was doubtfulif they could ever learn very much regarding his history. Weeks passed, and Geoffrey was at last pronounced well enough to return to the beautiful home awaiting him in Brookiyn. He had recovered without a single drawback. The light of reason gleamed in his eyes, and he had the full use of all the organs of speech. But, although the doctors had decided that he must be fully fifteen years of age, notwithstanding his growth had been somewhat stunted by the effects of his injury, mentally he was little better than an infant. He talked like a child of five years, and acted like one. But very little could be learned of his previous life. It was evident that he had been living with a woman named Margery—who, probably, was his nurse—and a man named Jack, possibly the woman’s husband. Margery he had loved, and he often called for her now. Jack he had feared, and looked frightened whenever his name was mentioned. Of the injury which had deprived him of his memory he seemed to be able to tell nothing, although he affirmed that Jack had struck and tried to choke Margery, and he wanted to “lick the naughty man.” Of his mother he knew absolutely nothing; his father was not much more than a name to hin, although he spoke of him as his ‘good pana,” while he could not tell anything whatever about the place where his former home had been, and knew pou: of the circumstances of his being in New ¥ onl. He was very quick to comprehend however, now that he once more had his reason, and readily adapted him- self to his new surroundings. Mr. Huntress resolved to adopt him legally, and do all in his power to atone for the long interval of darkness and mental incapacity to which he had been so strangely doomed. Geoffrey began at once to regard his new friends with the greatest confidence and affection, while toward Gladys he manifested the most devoted love. She, on her part, regarded him with tenderest com- passion and sympathy, for, in spite of his remarkable beauty and natural ability, he was truly a pitiable object, with the simple mind and manners of a child five years of age in a body of fifteen; for he soon began to develop ConmmicloOolkxS.G