Frank Fairlegh

Frank Fairlegh, by Frank E. Smedley

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Title: Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
Author: Frank E. Smedley
Illustrator: George Cruikshank
Release Date: December 10, 2006 [EBook #20075]
Language: English
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FRANK FAIRLEGH
SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A PRIVATE PUPIL
BY
FRANK E. SMEDLEY
"How now! good lack! what present have we here? A Book that goes in peril of the press; But now it's past those pikes, and doth appear To keep the lookers-on from heaviness. What stuff contains it?"
Davies of Hereford
WITH TWENTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
A NEW EDITION
METHUEN & CO. LONDON
1904
THIS Issue is founded on the First Edition, published by A. Hall, Virtue, & Co., in the year 1850.

I. All Right! Off We Go! 1
II. Loss and Gain 12
III. Cold-water Cure for the Heartache 21
IV. Wherein is Commenced the Adventure of the Macintosh and Other Matters 28
V. Mad Bess 39
VI. Lawless Gets Thoroughly Pot Oot 46
VII. The Board of Green Cloth 59
VIII. Good Resolutions 71
IX. A Denouement 81
X. The Boating Party 93
XI. Breakers Ahead! 100
XII. Death and Change 106
XIII. Catching a Shrimp 114
XIV. The Ball 122
XV. Ringing the Curfew 129
XVI. The Roman Father 136
XVII. The Invisible Girl 145
XVIII. The Game in Barstone Park 150
XIX. Turning the Tables 155
XX. Alma Mater 160
XXI. The Wine Party 163
XXII. Taming a Shrew 173
XXIII. What Harry and I Found When We Lost Our Way 182
XXIV. How Oaklands Broke His Horsewhip 190
XXV. The Challenge 198
XXVI. Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before 205
XXVII. The Duel 212
XXVIII. The Substance of the Shadow 220
XXIX. The Struggle in Chesterton Meadow 229
XXX. Mr. Frampton's Introduction to a Tiger 234
XXXI. How I Rise a Degree, and Mr. Frampton Gets Elevated in More Ways Than One 242
XXXII. Catching Sight of an Old Flame 250
XXXIII. Woman's a Riddle 257
XXXIV. The Riddle Baffles Me! 264
XXXV. A Mysterious Letter 272
XXXVI. The Riddle Solved 280
XXXVII. The Forlorn Hope 288
XXXVIII. Facing the Enemy 296
XXXIX. The Council of War 304
XL. Lawless's Matin��e Musicale 313
XLI. How Lawless Became a Lady's Man 322
XLII. The Meet at Eversley Gorse 331
XLIII. A Charade--Not All Acting 340
XLIV. Confessions 350
XLV. Helping a Lame Dog Over a Stile 360
XLVI. Tears and Smiles 369
XLVII. A Cure for the Heartache 378
XLVHI. Paying Off Old Scores 389
XLIX. Mr. Frampton Makes a Discovery 399
L. A Ray of Sunshine 408
LI. Freddy Coleman Falls into Difficulties 417
LII. Lawless Astonishes Mr. Coleman 425
LIII. A Comedy of Errors 432
LIV. Mr. Vernor Meets His Match 440
LV. The Pursuit 447
LVI. Retribution 454
LVII. Woo'd and Married 463

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Frank Fairlegh Caught in the Trap 27
Lawless Ornamenting Frank's Writing-desk 29
Mad Bess 44
Lawless Finds his Level 56
The Doctor Makes a Discovery 79
The Doctor Expels a Pupil 90
Frank Rescues Coleman 104
The Fall op the Candelabrum 124
Freddy Coleman mystifies the Beadle 133
Lawless Eloping with the Fire-engine 135
The Wine Party 167
The Roused Lion 190
The Results ok giving Satisfaction 216
Fairlegh to the Rescue 231
Hurra! Hurra! Room for the Governor 246
The Shy Young Gentleman Favours the Company with a Song 249
A Mysterious Bonnet 253
An Unexpected Reverse 266
The Discovery 281
The Lover's Leap 338
A Charade--Not all Acting 345
A New Cure for the Heartache 382
A Striking Position 398
The Reconciliation 418
Mammon Worship 430
A Messenger of Evil 447
The Retribution 457
The Rescue 459

FRANK FAIRLEGH
OR
SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A PRIVATE PUPIL
CHAPTER I
-- ALL RIGHT! OFF WE GO!
~1~~
"Yet here... you are stayed for ... There; my blessing with you, And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character-----"
"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than living dully, sluggardis'd at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
"Where unbruised youth, with unstuff'd brain, Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign." Shakspeare
"NEVER forget, under any circumstances, to think and act like a gentleman, and don't exceed your allowance," said my father.
"Mind you read your Bible, and remember what I told you about wearing flannel waistcoats," cried my mother.
And with their united "God bless you, my boy!" still ringing in my ears, I found myself inside the stage-coach, on my way to London.
Now, I am well aware that the correct thing for a boy in my situation (i.e. leaving home for the first time) would be to fall back on his seat, and into a reverie, during which, utterly lost to all external impressions, he should entertain the thoughts and feelings of a well-informed man of thirty; the same thoughts and feelings being clothed in ~2~~the semi-poetic prose of a fashionable novel-writer. Deeply grieved, therefore, am I at being forced both to set at