"Miss Candace sighed in confidence to Lucy; and Lucy, weeping, returned: “He would have been fourteen this January.”“And he might have been a genius—who knows?”“At least he might have been more like dear Papa.”“It seems to me so cruel, Lucy, that with your father’s marvellous gifts for educating the young—his extraordinarily formative influence on his students—he should have failed so completely..."
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