Geoffrey's Victory by Mrs Georgie Sheldon — page 48: what you’re looking at

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a GEOFFREY ENTERS COLLEGE grateful [I am for your goodness,” Geoffrey said, with deep feeling. “Tut, tut, my boy, don’t burden yourself with any sense of obligation. Iam getting my pay asI go ulong, in the enjoyment I get out of having a fine, manly fellow like yourself in the house. I don’t believe I could be prouder of my own son than I am of you, and, taking us allin all, I imagine there-isn’t a happier family in all Brooklyn than the one residing at No. —— Clinton ave- nue. Kh, Geoff?” CHAPTER VII. GEOFFREY ENTERS COLLEGE. August Huntress and his gentle wife, Alice, deserved to be happy, for they had devoted the best of their lives to the work of rearing the two children who had been so strangely thrown upon their care. Of course it was but natural that their love for Gladys should be deeper, stronger, and more sacred than for Geoffrey, for they had taken her to their hearts as their very own when she was but.a tiny babe, and having had no other children sent them to share their affection, their every hope had long been centered in her. But they felt very tenderly toward the hapless boy who had first aroused their sympathy for his misfortune, and subsequently won their love by his gentleness and con- fidence in them. Mr. Rivers, Geoffrey’s tutor, was very glad of the op- portunity to remain with his pupil during the summer vacation, forit was simply a pleasure to teach one so eager for knowledge; while, too, being in limited circum- stances, he needed the pecuniary benefit accruing from the arrangement. Mr. Huntress sent them both into the country upon a farm, where they could have fresh air and country liv- ing to strengthen their bodies, while storing their minds with knowledge. Mr. Rivers was most faithful in fulfilling his duties as a tutor, while Geoffrey was indefatigable as a student. He applied himself early and late; he dug to the very root of every problem and question, while he possessed the power of concentration to such a degree that he got over the ground much more rapidly than most students. At the beginning of September he was pronounced comiclooolks CO©