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Bressant

CHAPTER VII
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What is he to be taught ?" "Wants to be a minister," replied the professor, rubbing his beard.
"Shall do what I can for him, because he's the son of a former friend, now dead.

I'm afraid he won't do, though.

Needs a good deal besides Hebrew and history." "But you can give him all he does need, papa," rejoined Sophie, with serene faith in the old gentleman's infallibility.
"I don't know," returned he, his eyes resting upon the Lord's Prayer.

"I don't know," he repeated, turning them to his daughter's transparent face, which seemed almost an incarnation of the divine words.

"I think, my dear, that you could put some ideas into his head that would do him more good than any thing I can give him;" and he smiled gravely upon her.
"All right, papa," said Sophie, gayly, with a tender kindling of her soft, gray eyes.


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