The young men and women were determined to secure an education at any cost.
The sweeping of the recitation-room in the manner that I did it seems to have paved the way for me to get through Hampton.

Miss Mary F.Mackie, the head teacher, offered me a position as janitor.

This, of course, I gladly accepted, because it was a place where I could work out nearly all the cost of my board.

The work was hard and taxing but I stuck to it.

I had a large number of rooms to care for, and had to work late into the night, while at the same time I had to rise by four o'clock in the morning, in order to build the fires and have a little time in which to prepare my lessons.