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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II A PHILOSOPHER AT HOME We learn not in school but in life. -- Seneca. Whoever evades the burden, misses the blessing. True living is never easy; there never comes a day when a noble life can be lived without effort -- Marden. Brook Street was a small, insignificant by-street at the lower end of the town. The tlite of Cottingdean society were grouped round the cathedral close and the castle ; but there were a few handsome, substantial- looking houses built round a small green, and these were designated the Greenery. The largest of these belonged to the Colvilles. Mr. Colville was the principal banker, and one or two of his sons were in the business. Mrs. Colville had good blood in her veins, and was connected with the Luxmores, who were very big people indeed. It had recently been reported in Cottingdean that a certain elderly member of the aristocracy, who had lately lost his wife, had been smitten by the charms of Blanche Luxmore, and that in all probability the young debutante was a prospective countess. What matter if the Earl of Muncaster were the same age as her father ; the Luxmores were a proud and ambitious family, and the girl herself was quite willing to sacrificeher youth and beauty in return for the solid advantages of rank and influence. It was not to be expected, then, that the inhabitants of the close or the Greenery had any dealings with Brook Street. One of the junior clerks at the Bank and a lawyer's clerk or two lived there, and also the national schoolmistress, and the widow of a ...