Memories of Westminster Hall, Vol. 2 PDF Download

Author: Edward Foss
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331527411
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Excerpt from Memories of Westminster Hall, Vol. 2: A Collection of Interesting Incidents, Anecdotes and Historical Sketches, Relating to Westminster Hall, Its Famous Judges, and Lawyers, and Its Great Trials Mr. And Mrs. Tichborne had married in the year 1827, and on the sth of January, 1829, a son was born to them, whom they baptized at the Madeleine Church in the name of Roger Charles. Ten years later they had an other son, who was known as Alfred Joseph. Two little girls were also born to them, but these died young, so that the Tichborne family consisted only of father, mother, and the two sons. Of these the elder one, little Roger, concerns us most. There came a time when it was necessary to provide instructors for the lad, and Mrs. Tichborne, resolute in the determination. To have her own way in all things, charged herself with the matter of his education. A tutor was engaged for him named Chatillon, whose duty it was not only to teach, but to take the little boy out to play in the public gardens of which there are in Paris so many. Afterwards there was a spiritual instructor for the boy in the person of Father Alexis Lefevre, a priest who has since become renowned as a preacher, and from his miraculous escape from exe cution by the Communists in the civil strife which fol lowed on the conclusion of the great war with Germany. The boy loved Father Lefevre, and on the fete day of his patron saint Alexis was accustomed to make a special visit to the worthy father, taking with him an offering of flowers. As intelligence grew he confided to him his childish sorrows, and the priest gave him consolation. One day little Roger said to him, Father, why is your hair all white? Then the father told him how once when he was in Spain, and when he was still a young man, he dreamed a terrible dream of his father's death, and how the shock brought on an illness, and how from that time his hair began to change, and in the end grew prematurely gray. At other times he amused the boy with legends of the saints, telling him of a certain man in the old times who went away from father and mother. 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.