Word: boying
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...England during the 1820s and '30s, the novel is chiefly narrated by a character who first appears as a young boy named John Mellamphy. He lives with his mother in a small village; he has no knowledge of his father, nor does he realize that Mellamphy is not his real surname. Gradually, he comes to understand that his mother possesses something that a number of other people desperately want. It is the codicil to an old, disputed will concerning the immense Huffam estate. The present holder of that property, Sir Perceval Mompesson, wants to obtain the codicil...
These details by no means exhaust the plot; they simply set in motion John's long, arduous journey toward self-discovery. The idea that, somewhere, a powerful person has designs on his life soon changes into an ominous reality for the boy. Strangers try to abduct him. His mother's small inheritance is wiped out through bad investments, all recommended by an attorney who is supposed to protect her anonymity and interests. The two of them are forced to flee from their village and hide in the capaciousness of the capital: "Long before I saw London I smelt...
...pomp: "The Master was wearing a costume in which it was so impossible to believe that he had knowingly attired himself, that it seemed that it was only by a polite conspiracy among his observers that no-one drew his attention to it." At one of his nadirs, the boy searches for coins among the appalling muck of Thames- side sewers...
...Good Catholic Boy: Two weeks ago, senior Ted Donato--who broke his collarbone in mid-November--was finally given the okay to get back on the ice. But with Harvard's examperiod ban on organized practices, the forward didn't have any teammates to join...
...vintage Turner, a mix of bluntness and good-ole-boy bluster. But people don't laugh condescendingly anymore at the man who was once dubbed the "Mouth of the South." The raffish and unpredictable outsider has become an industry leader, and the critics who once forecast his demise have for now been silenced. The Turner Broadcasting System, which three years ago was close to collapsing in debt, showed an operating profit for the first nine months of 1989, the first time it has emerged from the red since 1985. Turner, meanwhile, has become an advocate for a range of liberal...