Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 196
violent about my father, though gentle to me. Thomas,the old soldier, comforted me, and said he was sure itwas for the best. With a relief so strange that it waslike oppression, I went home. My mother set herself to accommodate the quarrel,and did so next day. She brought home a request forme to… … Dickens when a YoungMan. 168 Men Who Have Risen these things have worked together to make me whatI am; but I never afterwards forgot, I never shall, Inever can forget, that my mother was warm for mybeing sent back. From that hour until this at which I write, no wordof that part of my childhood…
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