Aleck's

This did not prevent Aleck's mother, however, from later trying to stop his engagement to a young woman of whom she disapproved, although she later grew fond of her.

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Near home they heard Aleck's music thumping, and they kept going and stopped and looked across the street at the house, sitting on its high bank, stars glinting over its roof, lights on in all the downstairs rooms.

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Near home they heard Aleck's music thumping, and they kept going and stopped and looked across the street at the house, sitting on its high bank, stars glinting over its roof, lights on in all the downstairs rooms.

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Half an hour spent with us in the school-room the next morning convinced my mother that Aleck's work had been well done.

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At this point of Aleck's narration I broke in impetuously with --

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"But," I added, "he promises that to-morrow he will make Aleck's boat sail as well as mine."

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I forget what was said after George finished this homely, but practical and excellent children's sermon; but I can remember that Aleck's face looked somewhat lighter; the words seemed to have touched some inner chord, and to have met _his_ troubles more than they did _mine_.

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I had taken up the kite in my hand, but I threw it aside again the moment George turned his back upon me, and sitting down upon the stones near the water's edge, with Frisk's fore-paws stretched across my lap, looked gloomily at the water and at Aleck's new boat.

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Aleck's pleasant ways had won upon the old man during the past few months, so that he had gained quite an established place in his affections.

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And so saying, Dr. Wilson drove rapidly off, and my father went back again to Aleck's room.

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