Excerpt from Sweet Anne Page, Vol. 1 of 3 Miss Harriet officiated as school-mistress to all but Stephen. He was rather older than any of his cousins, but his aunt's reason for giving him up was his pertinacity in asking questions which she was unable to answer. So he was sent just now to an old-fashioned day-school in which boys and girls were mixed, and where he had positively managed to fall in love already. There is nothing strange in that; but it so happened that Stephen's little love-fancy was destined to colour his whole life. What a lazy boy you are! Went on Aunt Harriet. Have you no lessons to learn? You learn nothing at Miss Martin's. Not very much, aunt, said Stephen. She never will answer my questions. I asked her to-day whether she didn't think Christian in the Pilgrim's Progress' a very bad man for running away from his wife, and she called me a wicked boy, and made me stand on the form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.