This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... afraid I'll never be much of a credit to Aunt Letitia as a scholar, Lance. Whatever the reason is, I don't care for study." "But you think you might be worth something else?" "Yes, that is it. Oh, Lance, how kind you are!" said Nan; "you understand it all so quickly." "What do you think of, then, Nan, when you find ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... afraid I'll never be much of a credit to Aunt Letitia as a scholar, Lance. Whatever the reason is, I don't care for study." "But you think you might be worth something else?" "Yes, that is it. Oh, Lance, how kind you are!" said Nan; "you understand it all so quickly." "What do you think of, then, Nan, when you find you don't care for study? Still, I shouldn't call you downright stupid." "Oh, yes!" Nan averred, shaking her head solemnly;" all the Miss Priors and the Miss Joneses in the world never could make me what Miss Prior calls brilliant. Don't you suppose I know it well enough? You see at Uncle Rupert's nobody cared; but here I've made so much more of an effort--and--it's no use; but I think about doing something very busy and very useful. You see, I do understand more about poor people than rich." Lance looked at his little cousin with more respect than if she had been construing Virgil by the page. "Nan," he said, leaning forward and speaking impressively, "do you stick to that, then. Don't give up your books--why should you?--but don't bother your poor little head trying to be brilliant over them. Now, see here, do you want to go and see an old boat-builder I know?" Nan professed herself only too delighted. Lance rowed on. The river ran very wide just here, and Nan many years later remembered just that moment--the look of the clearly flowing water, the May sky, Lance's strong young figure, and, above all, the sort of strength the boy's words had given her. She felt more hopeful than she had thought it possible ever to be the day before. The boat-builder's workshop was a roomy though rather dilapidated building, near the water's edge, just above a little bank of tan...
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