I Walked in Arden

I Walked in Arden

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I Walked in Arden by Jack Randall Crawford

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the noon-hour walks in Lincoln's Inn Fields, pausing perhaps for a quarter of an hour at the Soame Museum, or venturing as far as Chancery Lane, seemed to epitomize the things for which I was desperately homesick.

It had strained my loyalty to my father to the breaking point to accept the test he had put upon me. No word, however, of my resentment, of my sullen hatred for the task, had I allowed him to guess. He had gone aboard the steamer in one of his moods of extreme optimism--business would flourish as it never had before now I was to be at the helm. I had looked ruefully at the cancelled steamer ticket in my hand and had resolved to try, but in very truth I was sick at heart. As the boat left the dock, I turned away with some boyish tears in my eyes--and they were bitter tears. I hated and loathed, at that moment, the fate that had condemned me to the new venture. The roar and clang of the streets about the docks seemed symbols of all that was unlovely, of all that stood between me and what I wan

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I would extend the genre to include:Romance.

* A young man comes from England to head the chemistry department of his father's new factory in America.

* He strives to make his job and himself a success, although he would rather be a writer.

* He falls in love."

* Life is beautiful for a while."

A most enjoyable love story, but
ladies, get out your tissue, for the ending.

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