Identifier: quaintcornersinp00stoc (find matches)
Title: Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stockton, Louise, 1838-1914 Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936 Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916 Jackson, Joseph, 1867-1946 Turner, Eliza Sproat, Mrs., 1826-1903 Leach, Frank Willing, 1855-1943 Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918
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Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, J. Wanamaker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r evil to come. The JovialAdmiral went with clouded l)row. and when the newsof the expulsion came the disgrace hurt him to the core.Pepys reconls the misery into which the family wereidungedand the consternation among the family friends. It was impossilde to keej) up the quarrel with this fa-vorite son, who sicmed in a low ;ind sad state (»fmind, utterly unnatural at eighteen, and, after lou^-deliberation, he took what bade fair to be the wise andeffectual course. A jiarty of college friends were aboutto begin the grand tour. The Admiral proposed thathis son should join them, and Penn accepted with di-ligiit. The reaction had come, and once presented atthe brilliant court of Louis t^uatorze. Penn tbrgot hisscruples, and, while never going t(> the U-ngths connnonat the time, still lived a gay and joyful life, the lite notof (^)uaker l)ut of Cavalier. The Admiral rubbed hishands over the success of the experiment, determiningthat his sons education should be linished in France, u^^^
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A QUAKER SOLDIER. 25 and that he should then enter the army. Penn went toSauniur prepared in his own mind for this change,placed himself under Moses Amyrault, and with thisfamous scholar not only read the principal fathers butstudied thoroughly the language and literature of thecountry. At the close of this course of study he beganto travel, having again joined Lord Robert Spencer,with whom he had become intimate while living in Paris,at which time also he had met Lady Dorothy Sidney,sister of Algernon Sidney. With the brother a friend-ship now began which lasted uninterruptedly throughall variations of opinion. Two years of intercoursewith the best that France and Italy could aftbrd hadpassed when Penn was suddenly summoned home, partlyto attend to family affairs and partly to secure his ownsafety, as there were rumors of possible war. He hadleft London a moody and silent boy. He returned to itso fine a gentleman that the world first wondered, thenopened its arms, and )SIr. Pepys wro

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