He isn't sure, but, from
surface indications, he thinks just as we do, and the two men are having
a great argument. They're going to discuss the matter next week before
the Geological Society. Do you know, I'm half tempted to write Professor
Grandet what we have discovered? It might make it perfectly clear to
him."
"Well, I would," said Morton, going back to his lines, more interested
in them than in what, had he known it, was to have a great and lasting
influence on his own and sisters' lives.
So next day Sara seated herself, with an old atlas for a desk, and wrote
with care and precision what she had to tell; then, directing the
missive, she went to the old teapot in search of the two cents to pay
its postage.
As she lifted the lid and peered in, a sigh escaped her, for the little
store of silver and copper was getting low; soon it would be necessary
to take another bill from the roll of greenbacks so carefully hoarded;
and the thought alarmed her, for already it was greatly reduced in size;
then, remembering the lesson of dependence she was trying to teach
herself, she took out two of the pennies, and resolutely replaced the
lid, resolving not even to think of what it was, apparently, beyond her
power to remedy.
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