CONTENTS. The Dog who could see in the Dark An English Child in India Fifty Years Ago WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN? OR, THE NOBLEMAN AND THE FISHMONGER. 1. LORD TREGENNAN, of Tregennan Castle, in the county of Somerset, was a very great nobleman. He had a large house in London, and a larger one still in the country. Tregennan Castle was famous for the beauty of its architecture, for its gallery of invaluable pictures, for its ancestral oaks, and for many other things besides. 2. Its owner was a statesman and a scholar, a man of unblemished character and unwearied industry, devoted to his country, fond of his children, who were brought up as became their station, but strictly and with simplicity. One fault he had: he was careless in money matters; how his private affairs stood he was indifferent; with the management of his household, of his accounts, he had scarcely anything to do. 3. He lived the greater part of the year in London B |