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The Major

CHAPTER IV
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Are you listening?
You must be educated.

Nothing must interfere with that.
No suffering is too great to be endured by all of us.

The time for education is youth; first because your mind works more quickly and retains better what it acquires, and second because it is a better investment, and you will sooner be able to pay us all back what we spend now.

So you will go to school this year, boy, if we can manage it, and I think we can.

Some day," she added, patting him on the shoulder, and holding him off from her, "when you are rich you will give me a silk dress." "Won't I just," cried the boy passionately, "and the girls too, and everything you want, and I will give you a good time yet, mother.


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