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EBOOK, THE MORALS OF MARCUS ORDEYNE ***


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THE MORALS OF MARCUS ORDEYNE

by William J. Locke



PART I


CHAPTER I

For reasons which will be given later, I sit down here, in
Verona, to write the history of my extravagant adventure. I
shall formulate and expand the rough notes in my diary which lies
open before me, and I shall begin with a happy afternoon in May,
six months ago.

May 20th.
_London_:--To-day is the seventh anniversary of my release from
captivity. I will note it every year in my diary with a sigh of
unutterable thanksgiving. For seven long blessed years have I
been free from the degrading influences of Jones Minor and the
First Book of Euclid. Some men find the modern English boy
stimulating, and the old Egyptian humorous. Such are the born
schoolmasters, and schoolmasters, like poets, _nascuntur non
fiunt_. What I was born passes my ingenuity to fathom.


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