If ever she came to school with her lesson unprepared, it was because some book of travel or history had had attractions too strong for her.

And all that day she would go about like a guilty thing, oppressed by a sense of downfall and neglected duty.
With Alec it was very different.

He would often find himself in a similar case; but the neglect would make no impression on his conscience; or if it did, he would struggle hard to keep down the sense of dissatisfaction which strove to rise within him, and enjoy himself in spite of it.
Annie, again, accepted such as her doom, and went about gently unhappy, till neglect was forgotten in performance.

There is nothing that can wipe out wrong but right.
And still she haunted George Macwha's workshop, where the boat soon began to reveal the full grace of its lovely outlines.

Of all the works of man's hands, except those that belong to Art, a boat is the loveliest, and, in the old sense of the word, the _liveliest_.