But I see too, Charley--' 'Still as plain as plain can be, Liz ?' asked the boy playfully.
'Ah! Still.

That it is a great work to have cut you away from father's life, and to have made a new and good beginning.

So there am I, Charley, left alone with father, keeping him as straight as I can, watching for more influence than I have, and hoping that through some fortunate chance, or when he is ill, or when--I don't know what--I may turn him to wish to do better things.' 'You said you couldn't read a book, Lizzie.

Your library of books is the hollow down by the flare, I think.' 'I should be very glad to be able to read real books.

I feel my want of learning very much, Charley.