"
"I will see to the money part," said Mr. Danvers.
"And please, sir," asked Cecile, as he rose to leave, "is Jography a
thing or a person?"
"Geography!" said the clergyman, laughing. "You shall come to school
to-morrow morning, my little maid, and learn something of geography."
CHAPTER IX.
"A LETTER."
Mr. Danvers was as good as his word and wrote by the next post to
the French cousin. He wrote a pathetic and powerful appeal to this
man, describing the destitute children in terms that might well move
his heart. But whether it so happened that the French relation had no
heart to be moved, whether he was weary of an uncongenial subject, or
was ill, and so unable to reply--whatever the reason, good Mr.
Danvers never got any answer to his letter.
Meanwhile Cecile and Maurice went to school by day, and sometimes
also by night. At school both children learned a great many things.
Cecile found out what geography was, and her teacher, who was a very
good-natured young woman, did not refuse her earnest request to learn
all she could about France.
Cecile had long ago been taught by her own dead father to read, and
she could write a very little. She was by no means what would be
considered a smart child. Her ideas came slowly--she took in
gradually. There were latent powers of some strength in the little
brain, and what she once learned she never forgot, but no amount of
school teaching could come to Cecile quickly. Maurice, on the
contrary, drank in his school accomplishments as greedily and easily
as a little thirsty flower drinks in light and water.
Pages:
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148