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Title: The Young Lord and Other Tales
to which is added Victorine Durocher

Author: Camilla Toulmin

Release Date: January 22, 2008 [eBook #24403]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE YOUNG LORD AND OTHER TALES***

Transcribed from the 1849-1850 Darton and Co. edition by David Price,
ccx074@pglaf.org

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THE YOUNG LORD,
AND
Other Tales.

BY MRS. CROSLAND,
(LATE CAMILLA TOULMIN.)

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

VICTORINE DUROCHER.

BY MRS. SHERWOOD.

LONDON:
DARTON AND CO., HOLBORN HILL.
1849-50.

LONDON:
GEORGE WOODFALL AND SON,
ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.

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THE YOUNG LORD;
AND
THE TRIAL OF ADVERSITY.

BY MRS. NEWTON CROSLAND,
(LATE CAMILLA TOULMIN.)

THE YOUNG LORD.

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust do
corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."--ST.
MATT. vi. 19, 20, 21.

"How can we reward the little boy who has so honestly brought me the
bracelet I lost at church yesterday?" said Mrs. Sidney to her only son
Charles, who was now passing the Midsummer vacation with his widowed
mother, at a pretty cottage in Devonshire, which had been the home of his
early years.

"I do not think people should be rewarded for common honesty," said
Charles; "and the clasp contained such an excellent likeness of papa,
whom every one in the village knew, that it would have been unsafe as
well as dishonest for him not to have delivered it up."

"I am sorry to find, Charles," said Mrs. Sidney, "that school has not
weakened those selfish feelings which have so often caused me pain. You
seem to me to think that every trifling gift I bestow upon another is
robbing you; and, worse than all, I find you constantly wresting