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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Tom Farnum had known Rebecca Vanderpool when she was a little girl, in spite of the fact that she had enjoyed the distinction of being taught by a governess, while he had attended the village school. He remembered her as an ugly child. His mother had said that she had grown into an ugly woman, the truth of which he had been able to verify in church. Nevertheless Tom yearned to call upon her. The Vanderpools were the only wealthy residents of Huddlesford. His gaze lingered regretfully upon the broad verandas and comfortable wicker chairs every time that he passed The Elms, as their home was called. He had come back to Huddlesford after a preparatory-school and college training, and several years of study in Germany, ?not to mention a year of tutoring at Harvard, ?because he felt, and with reason, that he owed something to the man and the woman who had made all this possible by a lifeLOVE AFFAIR OF A HOMELY GIRL 17 of pitiful economies. Tom was a thoroughly good boy when it came to essentials. Huddles ford, however, was stupid. The presence there of the best father and the best mother in the world, could neither change nor mitigate that fact. The men, with the exception of Bige Ewing, were impossible, and the only pretty girls, the rector's daughter and the young schoolmistress who had strayed into Huddlesford from the world outside, were away. Tom had never met either of them. They were both since his day. He had examined with uncritical eyes the summer visitors at the little hotel a mile or so beyond the village, but had made a discouraged departure. He would have been willing to put up with a girl of very moderate attractions, for the sake of companionship, but even she was lacking. Should he or should he not tackle Miss Vander- pool? She was said t.