“Oh no, Miss Grimshaw; but you forget there is no school at night.”
“You are not going at night, but in the morning early;” and my white face, as she told me afterwards, frightened her into exclaiming at once,
“Mrs. Jeffries says that she will board you; that is, she will send me enough during the winter of such things as we need to pay the expense of your board; and you are to go to Rockdale.”
I had no words, and Jennie seated herself on my knee, and kissed away the tears. “I am so glad, brother; I only wish I could go too.”
“The walk is entirely too long for Jennie,” said Miss Grimshaw, who overheard the last remark; “but you can help her some, and in this way she will advance nearly as well as though at school all the time.”
“We shall get on very nicely. I cannot sufficiently thank you, Miss Grimshaw.”
“It is not all my work, Marston. Mrs. Jeffries had quite as much to do with it; she is anxious that you should both go to school.”
V.
A great day it was when I started for the academy. With the amount received from Mr. Willett, Miss Grimshaw had provided me with a neat outfit, and also had enough left for a few new books.