An autobiography / by Edward Livingston Trudeau.

  • Edward Livingston Trudeau
Date:
1916
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Credit: An autobiography / by Edward Livingston Trudeau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    took. This, I think, was due partly to my lack of interest in, and fitness for the work I started on, and partly to the constant temptations to amuse myself with my friends the Livingstons, who did not have to work and were only too glad to have me go about with them. Had it not been for my love for Miss Beare, and the religious ideals imbibed from childhood from my good brother, which had been fanned into new life by the influences at the Little Neck cottage, I should certainly have fallen into a life of amusement and dissipation. I realized, however, that if I was ever to win the girl I loved, I must demonstrate my ability to be steady enough to make some sort of career for myself and earn some sort of living. It was about this time that I had a rupture with my grandmother which brought things to a climax. The old lady and I had never got on well together, and had had many battles royal. She knew that I was dependent on her, for my grand¬ father had left most of his property in trust to her for her lifetime. By his will a small trust had also been created for me, which gave me about seven hundred dollars income a year, but this was only about enough for my clothes and spend¬ ing money. One day I came home and found someone had taken what seemed to me unwarrant¬ able liberties with some of my personal property. I taxed my grandmother with having done it, and she admitted it and told me she intended to
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