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Marjory Trevellian was what is accounted among her class "a good scholar," and she had taught the little boy to read and write, to "say his tables," and to "cipher," as she termed the initiatory arithmetical exercises.
It was plain, however, that the boy was not abandoned to chance, but that an eye was upon him, and some friendly, if not conscientious direction, controlling his destiny.