Excerpt from Some Passages in the Life of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin: The Pic-Nic, and Other Tales Young Wharton after that became the warmest of my friends; but in my intercourse with him, there was always on my side a feeling of embarrassment. My conscience would not allow me to accept the grati tude which he Offered, and my pride would not allow me to confess to him the real circumstances of the case. This struggle within myself produced a cold ness in my behaviour, and I saw that the boy was mortified and disappointed, that his warm advances were so indifferently received. At length, though it was evident he longed for an opportunity to show his affection for his preserver, as he still thought and called me, he desisted from cultivating any greater ih timacy than had previously subsisted between us. I was now considered among my friends a person whose courage was only equalled by his modesty; and an idea began to be spread thati was so reckless of life, in the pursuit of fame, that under the melancholy and quietness of a Jacques, I concealed the spirit and am bitiou of a Hotspur. 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.