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50 you welcome and do for you all that we can? But have you no friends?"

"No friends that care about me at all, and no money to take me to them if I had them," said Amy. "But I was going to learn; papa meant to train me to be a governess, so that I could make my own living; that is, after he found he was not strong, and I was getting on nicely; all the voyage out I read and studied with him every day; for he said he might not have so much time to give me afterwards; but it is all at an end now."

"You have been a good schools, I suppose," said Allan.

"No, very little at school. Mamma taught me while she was able, and then papa gave me lessons but I am only thirteen, and so little; no one would think I could teach till I grow bigger, and have forgotten half of what I have learned."

"You are only thirteen, and I suppose you know hundreds of things that I don't?" said Allan, "and I am nearly twenty, too old to go to school, and that is worse than being too young, for that gets better every day."

"Do your father and mother really offer to keep me here altogether " said Amy, doubtfully.

"Yes, really, and only too glad if you will accept the offer. Mrs. Hammond ought to have