Why, your aunt may be delighted."
"ME aunt has never been DELIGHTED since she was born!"
"Have you been annoying her again?"
"Faith, I'm always doin' that."
He looked at the litter of books on the table and picked up one.
"How are your studies progressing?"
"Just the way they always have," replied Peg. "Not at all."
"Why not?"
"I don't like studying," answered Peg earnestly.
"And are you going through life doing only the things you LIKE?"
"Sure, that's all life's for."
"Oh, no, it isn't. As you grow older you'll find the only real
happiness in life is in doing things for others."
"Oh!" she said quickly: "I like doin' them NOW for others." She
looked up at him a moment, then down at a book and finished under,
her breath: "When I LIKE the OTHERS."
He looked at her intently a moment and was just going to speak when
she broke in quickly:
"What's the use of learnin' the heights of mountains whose names I
can't pronounce and I'm never goin' to climb? And I'm very much
surprised at me aunt allowin' me to read about the doin's of a lot
of dead kings who did things we ought to thry and forget."
"They made history," said Jerry. "Well, they ought to have been
ashamed of themselves. I don't care how high Mont Blanc is nor when
William the Conqueror landed in England.
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