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The boys must get off his hands
as soon as possible, he says, and Terry, being cleverest, must do so
soonest; but the boy has seen the dullest side of soldiering, and
hates it. His whole soul is set on scholarship. I am afraid it is
a great mistake."
"Can't you persuade him?"
"We have both written; but Rose has no great hopes of the result. I
wish he could follow his bent."
"Yes," said Jenny, lingering as she looked towards Church-house,
"the young instinct ought not to be repressed."
Julius knew that she was recollecting how Archie Douglas had
entreated to go to sea, and the desire had been quashed because he
was an only son. His inclination to speak was as perilous as if he
had been Rosamond herself, and he did not feel it unfortunate that
Jenny found she must no longer stay away from home.


CHAPTER XXII
Times Out of Joint

Alte der Meere,
Komm und hore;
Meine Frau, die Ilsebill,
Will nicht als ich will!
Life at Compton Poynsett was different from what it had been when
the two youngest sons had been at home, and Julius and Rosamond in
the house.


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