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-"I mean to be somebody, and to do something useful in the world,' said the eldest of five brothers. 'I don't care how humble my position is, so that I can only do some good, which will be something. I intend to be a brickmaker; bricks are always wanted, and I shall be really doing something." --HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
The schoolroom, or breakfast-room, as it was indifferently called at Weeroona, was a plainly furnished room, the floor covered with linoleum and the chairs of Austrian cane pattern, the couch was anything but a couch of ease, and the only other furniture in the room was a book-case, which Mr Marsden was wont to stigmatise as 'hideously' untidy. Phoebe sometimes made desperate efforts to reduce it to order, but her father on these occasions either took no notice of it at all or grumbled at the way in which she arranged the books, and then her struggles after law and order suffered a relapse, and she allowed the children to work their wicked will upon it.