Excerpt from Held in Bondage, or Granville De Vigne: A Tale of the Day Our modern Gamaliel was an immaculate and Ins1gn1fi cant little man, who, on the strength of a double first good connections, and M. B. Waistcoats, offered to train up the sons of noblemen and gentlemen In the way they should go; drill Greek and instil religious principles into them, for. The, trifling consideration of 3001. Per annum. He lived in a quiet little borough in the south of Berkshire, at a. Long, low, ivy-clad house called the Chancery, that had stupendous pretensions to the picturesque and the medie val;, and, what was of. Much more consequence to us, a capital little trout stream at the bottom of its grounds. Here. He dwelt with a fat old housekeeper, a very good cook, a quasi-juvemle niece - who went in for the kitten line, and did it very badly, too - and four, or, when times were good, six hot-brained, wild-spirited, incipient men, worse to keep in order than a team of unbroke thorough breds. No great deal of authority, however, did our Doc tor - in familiar parlance, Old Joey - attempt to exercise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.