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RETURNED EMPTY.
The breeze freshened, and, as was to be expected, blew the fog-bank away before sunset.
Sep Marvin had been an unwilling student all day.

Like many of his cloth and generation, Parson Marvin pinned all his faith on education.

"Give a boy a good education," he said, a hundred times.

"Make a gentleman of him, and you have done your duty by him." "Make a gentleman of him--and the world will be glad to feed and clothe him," was the real thought in his mind, as it was in the mind of nearly all his contemporaries.