About this story
Your quiet sister Veronica watches, envying the disobedience she will not attempt herself. When Cousin Charles offers Rosville Academy, your father agrees, and the household packs you off toward a school neither parent has seen, Veronica coming as far as Boston before the next coach divides you.
How it opens
Aunt Mercy declared you possessed while you climbed drawer knobs toward the forbidden upper shelf.
Books about polar voyages promised a world less supervised than your mother's winter room.
Mary MorgesonCassandra, profitable reading should improve the heart as well as occupy the mind.
A story may improve me differently from the way a sermon intends.
Mercy MorgesonDefiance always sounds philosophical when a child has been caught above the furniture.
Choose
It makes the unknown feel possible rather than sinful.
Let me finish it and then question what I believed.