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Cousin Phillis
by Elizabeth Gaskell
(1863)
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PART I
It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the
independence of lodgings. I do not think I ever was so
satisfied and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, I sate
down in a little three-cornered room above a pastry-cooks
shop in the county town of Eltham. My father had left me
that afternoon, after delivering himself of a few plain
precepts, strongly expressed, for my guidance in the new
course of life on which I was entering. I was to be a clerk
under the engineer who had undertaken to make the little
branch line from Eltham to Hornby. My father had got me
this situation, which was in a position rather above his
own in life; or perhaps I should say, above the station in
which he was born and bred; for he was raising himself
every year in mens consideration and respect. He was a
mechanic by trade, but he had some inventive genius, and
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a great deal of perseverance, and had devised several
valuable improvements in railway machinery. He did not
do this for profit, though, as was reasonable, what came in
the natural course of things was acceptable; he worked out
his ideas, because, as he said, until he could put them into
shape, they plagued him by night and by day. But this is
enough about my dear father; it is a good thing for a
country where there are many like him. He was a sturdy
Independent by descent and conviction; and this it was, I
belie
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