A Country Gentleman and his Family - Paperback

by Mrs Oliphant (Author)

Theodore Warrender was still at Oxford when his father died. He was a youth who had come up from his school with the highest hopes of what he was to do at the university. It had indeed been laid out for him by an admiring tutor with anticipations which were almost certainties: "If you will only work as well as you have done these last two years " These years had been spent in the dignified ranks of Sixth Form, where he had done almost everything that boy can do.