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It was not very long before ex-Sergeant Smylie discovered that in Stephen he had a star pupil. "Some day you ought to make a champion fencer, if you work really hard at it, Miss," he told her.
Stephen did not learn to lift pianos with her stomach, but as time went on she did become quite an expert gymnast and fencer; and as Mademoiselle Duphot confided to Anna, it was after all very charming to watch her, so supple and young and quick in her movements.