锡德里克·埃罗尔和妈妈一起住在纽约。妈妈是美国人。爸爸来自英国,但是几年前去世了。锡德里克对爸爸的家庭一无所知。一天,一位英国律师来到纽约。他是多林考特伯爵的律师哈维沙姆先生,他给锡德里克和他妈妈带来一个消息。伯爵是锡德里克的祖父,而锡德里克的父亲已经去世,所以锡德里克现在是多林考特财产和家族姓氏的继承人。他必须离开纽约,告别朋友——食品杂货店老板霍布斯先生和擦皮鞋的男孩迪克——前往英格兰。作为伯爵的孙子,他现在的名字是方特勒罗伊爵爷,他必须和富有的老祖父一起住在城堡里。 但是有钱人不一定是快乐的或好相处的。多林考特伯爵是一个易怒、自私、坏脾气的老头儿,而且他讨厌美国和美国人。每个人都怕他。但是对锡德里克来说,祖父是要去爱的人。同时,伯爵也会从他来自美国的孙子身上学到很多…… Cedric Errol lives with his American mother in New York. His father came from England, but he died some years ago, and Cedric knows nothing about his father’s family. But one day an English lawyer comes to New York. He is Mr Havisham, lawyer to the Earl of Dorincourt, and he has news for Cedric and his mother. The Earl is Cedric’s grandfather, and because Cedric’s father is dead, Cedric is now the heir to the Dorincourt riches and family name. He must leave New York, say goodbye to his friends Mr Hobbs the grocery-man and Dick the boot-black, and go to England. As the Earl’s grandson, his name is now Lord Fauntleroy, and he must live in a castle with his rich old grandfather. But rich people are not always happy people, or nice people. The Earl of Dorincourt is an angry, selfish, bad-tempered old man, and he hates America and Americans. Everyone is afraid of him. But to Cedric, a grandfather is someone to love, and the Earl has a lot to learn from his American grandson...
Wonderful things always happen quickly. Letters went to and from America and England, and soon Mr Hobbs, Dick, and Dick’s brother Ben were on a ship to England.
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Things happened quickly because Minna – and it was Minna – was a bad woman, and a stupid one too. When she married Bevis, the Earl’s son, she was still Ben’s wife, and you can’t have two husbands. Her son Tom was eight years old, not five, so he was Ben’s son, not Bevis’s son.
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She was in a sitting room in the Dorincourt Hotel when the end came. The door opened, and in came three people – Mr Havisham, a big young man, and the Earl of Dorincourt. Minna jumped to her feet with a cry.
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Do you know this woman?’ Mr Havisham said to the big young man.
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Yes,’ said Ben. ’I know her and she knows me.’
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And that was the end of Minna. She left the hotel and nobody ever saw her again. Ben took his son Tom back to California with him, and with the Earl’s help he bought a little farm there.
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When the Earl left the hotel, he went at once to his carriage. ’To Court Lodge,’ he said to his servant.
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He came into the sitting room at Court Lodge and found Cedric with his mother. The Earl looked taller and younger, and there was a smile in his black eyes. He looked at his grandson.
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So here,’ he said, ’is Lord Fauntleroy.’
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Mrs Errol stood up. ’Oh, is he truly Lord Fauntleroy?’ she asked. The Earl took her hand.
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Yes,’ he answered, ’he is.’ Then he put his other hand on Cedric’s head.
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Fauntleroy,’ he said, ’ask your mother this. When is she coming to us at the castle?’
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Lord Fauntleroy put his arms round his mother. ’To live with us,’ he cried. ’To live with us always!’
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Mrs Errol looked at the Earl with her sweet, sad eyes.
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We need you,’ the Earl said. ’We need you very much.’
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Dick and Mr Hobbs did not go back to America at once. The Earl had a talk with Dick, and Dick went back to school, in England this time. His writing got much better, and he began to study to be a lawyer.
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Mr Hobbs liked England very much. In the end he opened a new shop in Dorincourt, and was an important person in the village. People at the castle, of course, always went to his shop, and Cedric was in and out every day, to see his old friend.
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Are you ever going back to America?’ Dick asked Mr Hobbs when he visited one day.
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I don’t think so,’ Mr Hobbs said. ’I like to be near the boy, you see. He’s a fine little lord, young Cedric.’
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To live with us,’ Cedric cried.’To live with us always!’