Robert Falconer by George MacDonald
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OF THE MAN WHO STANDS HIGHEST IN THE ORATORY OF MY MEMORY, ALEXANDER JOHN SCOTT, I, DARING, PRESUME TO DEDICATE THIS BOOK. PART I.--HIS BOYHOOD. CHAPTER I. A RECOLLECTION. Robert Falconer, school-boy, aged fourteen, thought he had never seen his father; that is, thought he had no recollection of having ever seen him. But the moment when my story begins, he had begun to doubt whether his belief in the matter was correct. And, as he went on thinking, he became more and more assured that he had seen his father somewhere about six years before, as near as a thoughtful boy of his age could judge of the lapse of a period that would form half |
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