[Susy.A Story of the Plains by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookSusy.A Story of the Plains CHAPTER VI 24/32
No? Could you really? I know it has been very difficult for Susy to get on with her studies in proportion.
We had so much to first eradicate in the way of manners, style, and habits of thought which the poor child had picked up from her companions, and for which SHE was not responsible. Of course, with a boy that does not signify," she added, with feline gentleness. But the barbed speech glanced from the young man's smoothly smiling abstraction. "Ah, yes.
But those were happy days, Mrs.Peyton," he answered, with an exasperating return of his previous boyish enthusiasm, "perhaps because of our ignorance.
I don't think that Susy and I are any happier for knowing that the plains are not as flat as we believed they were, and that the sun doesn't have to burn a hole in them every night when it sets.
But I know I believed that YOU knew everything.
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