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The time of the tale is the early nineteenth century, the scene rural England, and the hero, one Peter Vibart, who tells his own history most engagingly. Disinherited, as he believes, by his uncle, Peter sets forth on the “Broad Highway” in search of a livelihood and of adventure. The first he finds as blacksmith in a Kentish village, the second rushes upon him in various and startling forms. Love comes to meet him, too, and he tells of it with an amusing, careful candor that recalls Blackmore’s hero, John Ridd. In fact, the whole story suggests Lorna Doone, but the resemblance is vague enough to be pleasant.More charming than the narrative, however, are the detached descriptive passages sketching the travelers met by Peter on the road, and the quaint rural types of his later experience. The author has rare powers of character-photography.

but between whiles managed to do fairly well in the Tripos, to finish a new and original translation of Quintilian, another of Petronius Arbiter and also a literal rendering into the English of the Memoirs of the Sieur de Brantome.”

“For none of which you have hitherto found a publisher?” inquired Mr. Grainger.

“Not as yet,” said I, “but I have great hopes of my Brantome, as you are probably aware this is the first time he has ever been translated into the English.”

“Hum!” said Sir Richard, “ha!–and in the meantime what do you intend to do?”

“On that head I have as yet come to no definite conclusion, sir,” I answered.

“I have been wondering,” began Mr. Grainger, somewhat diffidently, “if you would care to accept a position in my office. To be sure the remuneration would be small at first and quite insignificant in comparison to the income you have been in the receipt of.”

“But it would have been money earned,” said I, “which is infinitely preferable to that for whic

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