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That winter and spring and summer, and the winter that followed them too, were, happy as my life had been in many ways, the happiest I had ever known. I was not, of course, constantly with the Whytes, for we had our lessons separately, and they had a great many other things to do beside lessons, things which it had never entered my head that a little girl could help in, though, once I made a start, I found that this had been quite a mistake.
I have marked down a few special days to write about -- for looking back upon your life after a few years you can see what were the really important things that happened, the events which were the first links in a chain that led to lasting effects -- little and trifling as these events may have seemed at the time.