Word: fathers
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...wishes to marry Alcine, the young and pretty daughter of his friend Mirobolan, a physician. Wishing to get rid of his son, Geralde, he sends him to the law school at Bourges, in company with Crispin, a valet. Geralde, however, is passionately in love with Alcine, the girl his father hopes to marry; and he therefore remains in Paris, instead of going to Bourges, keeping in concealment as far as possible...
Meanwhile Geralde has used up all his money, and writes to his father for more, pretending to be hard at work in Bourges. Through the clumsiness of Crispin, by whom the letter was to be delivered, Lisidor's suspicions are aroused; for Crispin lost the real letter and, being afraid to tell his master, prepared a poor imitation of it, giving some lame excuses for strange lapses in his recollections of Bourges...
After promising to return later for the money, he sets off for the lodgings where Geralde is concealed, but on the way meets him in the street. Geralde is waiting for an interview with Alcine, who soon appears and tells him that his father, Lisidor, wishes to marry her. She is in a great hurry and has to leave without further explanations; so Geralde writes a letter to her, asking for a longer interview, and gives it to Crispin to deliver...
...latter goes at once to Alcine's house. Mirobolan, her father, is about to hold a meeting with some physicians of his acquaintance for the purpose of dissecting the corpse of a man who has just been hanged. Crispin, with his letter, is received by Dorine, a maid servant. Shortly after, he is nearly discovered by Mirobolan, who is busily preparing for the dissection. The only possible way of escaping undetected is by pretending to be the corpse, which Crispin accordingly does. In spite of remonstrance from Dorine, Mirobolan prepares to operate on the body of Crispin, who is nearly...
...Atlantic Monthly for May contains an article entitled "School Reform" in which Professor Munsterberg, after giving some interesting school reminiscences, argues against the elective system in schools and advocates the employment of competent teachers. In the same number an essay by Mr. J. H. Gardiner on "The Father of English Prose Style" traces the influence of the life and character of William Tyndale on the prose of the English Bible. Other articles by Harvard men are "An Ode in Time of Hesitation," by William Vaughn Moody '93, and a book review by Henry Childs Merwin...