Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 71: what you’re looking at

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“We will not touch it except for her schooling,” he told Perey. ‘She shall be weleome to everything else that she needs, but she must be taught to bea lady. The ditmouds we must keep always. for that alone will prove her birthright; and, lad, if I should die sudden, do you lake care of it. As you value her pages and future good, dot let anything happen 0b”? Percy's own education had been sadly neglected up to this time. His grandfather had taught him what he could; and the boy, naturally bright and studiously inclined, had made the most of these in- structions; but they were far from being systematic or what he needed. But vow. when the question of Hazel's education came to be cousidered, tle old nan began to feel that he had made a mistake in not giving him better ad- vantages, and he deterwined to make up for it as far ag was practicable. Hecould not send either of the children to school without putting them into some private institution far away from home, and he could not endure the thouxshtof the separation, which this would require ; therefore, he engaved the services, for eight mouths in the year, of a young graduate of one of the col- leges of England, who was suddenly reduced to the necessity of teaching, bnt whose henlth was delicate and would not admit of too close application. It was a very fortunate arrangement forall parties, for the sea air was just what the young student needed, and his services proved to be of the greatest advantage to his pupils. Nine years passed, and Perey developed into a fine youny ian of nineteen, honest, conscientious, intel- ligent; Hazel into a bright, energetic girl of twelve, loving fun and play with all her heart, when she had avixlt to it, but bending all her energies to study when that becaine her tuty. During the lastthree years it had been thought best for Perey to enter upon some regular course with youth of his own age, and he had therefore been pursuing his studies at Plymouth, remaining there during the school week, but returning to the island Friday evening and spending the Sabbath there. About this time Captain Morton began to fail vis- ibly, and to realize that lis activity was almost at an end. comicbooks.com ie Sa We ba ee a ee Vek tn A 8 eee: eee