Robert Gallimore was convinced that he came of a good lineage, Had not his father, a poor curate, unearthed a wonderful genealogy?
However, this did not trouble Robert, nor did it trouble his son Suuphen. Stephen read knightly romances—"Ivanhoe" in particular—went to a fourth-rate school where. hho learnt very little, and fell in love with Edith, to whom, however, he never spoke, And than, inevitably, he joined the ranks of the correspondence clerks at Leicester's That was a greater day for Mr. Gallimore than it was for Stephca. The boy was immensely handsome—sure proof of the aristocratic strain!—and Mr. Gallimore the drab be] mosphere of Leicester's Stores. Naturally, Stephen didn't fect quite. like that about it, but he soon managed to assume a swagger,
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