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Audrey

CHAPTER IX
13/26

To-morrow Messieurs de Sailly and de Breuil go down the river to talk of affairs with the English Governor.

You will go with them, and they will leave you at the Indian school which the English have built near to the great college in their town of Williamsburgh.

There you will stay, learning all that Englishmen can teach you, until you have eighteen years.

Come back to me then, and with the money left by your father you shall be fitted out as a trader.

Go!' ...
Yes, I went to school here; but I learned fast, and did not forget the things I learned, and I played with the English boys--there being no scholars from France--on the other side of the pasture." He waved his hand toward an irruption of laughing, shouting figures from the north wing of the college.


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