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Mr Solo as ent on, while I felt

very low-spirited again, and was thinking whether I had not better give

up learning how to grow fruit and go back to Old Brownsuide said to me kindly: "Don't you take any notice of them, my lad"

"Them?" I said in dismay

"Yes, there's a pair of 'em--nice pair too But they're often away at

school, and Sir Francis is a thorough gentleman They're not his boys,

but her ladyship's, and she has spoiled 'eroild, Grant I say,at me with a droll

twinkle in his eye, "they want us to train therowths, eh? I think we could make a

difference in them, don't you?"

I s, but it won't hurt us Here we are

Come in"

He led the way into a plainly furnished roolistened or turned white; and standing by a

table, over which the supper cloth had been spread, was a tall,

quiet-looking, elderly woreyish hair very smoothly

stroked down on either side of her rather severe face

"This is young Grant," said Mr Solomon

The woman nodded, and looked me all over, and it seemed as if she took