I'll see you through." Any boy will take a lecture with so agreeable an ending, and Napoleon did not resent his good friend's advice.
The general also introduced the boy to the great lady who lived in the big chateau near by--the Lady of Brienne.

She interested herself in the lad's doings, gave him many a "tip," invited him to her home, and, by kindly words and motherly deeds, brought the boy out of his nervousness and solitude into something more like good manners and gentlemanly ways.
So the school--life at Brienne went on more agreeably as the months passed by.

Napoleon studied hard.

He made good progress in mathematics and history, though he disliked the languages, and never wrote a good hand.

He was always an "old boy" for his years; and, in time, many of his teachers became interested in him, and even grew fond of him.
But he always kept his family in mind.