The Young Ice Whalers

ISBN: 9781331215875 出版年：2016 页码：434 Winthrop Packard Forgotten Books

I will do what I can to help make matters easy, father.The speaker was a handsome, well-built boy of seventeen, with a frank, winsome face that ordinarily showed neither strength nor weakness of character, - the face of a boy out of whom circumstances make much that is good, or sometimes much that is ill, according to what experiences life brings him. There are boys who will grow up strong and able men, anyway. They seem to have it in them from the start. There are others who have an inborn tendency to evil and dissipation, which no amount of training and opportunity for better things can eradicate.