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Frank Palentlemandescend from the coach, was

the eldest son of a wholesale andche just been adun, as the custom was in those days, to travel for

his fir

in politics, and an enthusiastica power in the country He was

well-to-do, living in a fine old red-brick house at Stoke Newington,

with half-a-dozen acres of ground round it, and, if Frank had been

born thirty years later, he would probably have gone to Cae or

Oxford

In those days, however, it was not the custom to send boys

to the Universities unless they were intended for the law, divinity

or idleness, and Frank's training, which was begun at St Paul's

school, was co to school in

theHe was surrounded by every

influence which was pure and noble Mr Maurice and Mr Sterling were

his father's guests, and hence it may be inferred that there was an

altar in the house, and that the sacred flame burnt thereon Mr

Palmer almost worshipped Mr Maurice, and his admiration was not

blind, for Maurice connected the Bible as rational in his