and learn just the same things. She knew she could do Euclid, for she had looked into it again, and she saw what A B C meant; they were the names of the lines.
“I’m sure you couldn’t do it, now,” said Tom; “and I’ll just ask Mr. Stelling if you could.”
“I don’t mind,” said the little conceited minx, “I’ll ask him myself.”
“Mr. Stelling,” she said, that same evening when they were in the drawing-room, “couldn’t I do Euclid, and all Tom’s lessons, if you were to teach me instead of him?”
“No, you couldn’t,” said Tom, indignantly. “Girls can’t do Euclid; can they, sir?”
“They can pick up a little of everything, I dare say,” said Mr. Stelling. “They’ve a great deal of Menn Adidas Hoodies&Track Tops superficial cleverness; but they couldn’t go far into anything. They’re quick and shallow.”
Tom, delighted with this verdict, telegraphed his triumph by wagging his head at Maggie, behind Mr. Stelling’s chair. As for Maggie, she had hardly ever been Męskie Vans Half Cab Pro so mortified. She had been so proud to be called “quick” all her little life, and now it appeared that this quickness was the brand of inferiority. It would have been better to be slow, like Tom.
“Ha, ha! Miss Maggie!” said Tom, when they were alone; “you see it’s not such a fine thing to be quick. You’ll never go far into anything, you know.”
And Maggie was so oppressed by this dreadful Converse American Flag destiny that she had no spirit for a retort.
But when this small apparatus of shallow quickness was fetched away in the gig by Luke, and the study was once more quite lonely for Tom, he missed her grievously. He had really been brighter, and had got through his lessons better, since she had been there; and she had asked Mr. Men Oversized Coats Stelling so many questions about Dame the Roman Empire, and Off-White Men Boots whether there really ever was a man who said, in Latin, “I would not buy it for a farthing or a rotten nut,” or whether Adidas Yeezy that had only been turned into Latin, that Tom had actually come to a dim understanding of the fact that there had once been people upon Męskie Vans Suede Chukka Boots the earth who were so fortunate as to know Latin without learning it through the medium of the Eton Grammar. This luminous idea was a great addition to his historical acquirements during this half-year, which were otherwise confined to Converse Jack Purcell an epitomized history of the Jews.
But the dreary half-year did come to an end. How glad Tom was to see the last yellow leaves fluttering before Men Bermuda Shorts the cold wind! The dark afternoons and the first December snow seemed to him far livelier than the August sunshine; Converse Damskie and that he might make himself the surer about the flight of the days that were carrying him homeward, he stuck twenty-one sticks deep in a corner of the Men Trench & Raincoats garden, when he was three weeks from the holidays, and pulled one up every day with a great wrench, throwing it to a distance with a vigor of will which would have carried it to limbo, if it had been in the nature of sticks to travel so far.
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