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` Yes , ' answered Miss Anne , smiling again ; ` he was a young man who knew the Bible from his youth . ' ` That ai n't me , however , ' said Tim in a despondent tone . ` There is nothing now to prevent you beginning to know it , ' continued Miss Anne . ` Listen : as Stephen can not come to me at Botfield , you shall meet me in the Red Gravel Pit at nine o'clock on a Sunday morning as long as the summer lasts , and I will teach you all . Bring little Nan with you , Stephen . ' Down the same narrow green pathway trodden by the feet of Stephen 's angry master and his brother the evening before , they now watched the little light figure of the young lady , as she slowly vanished out of their sight . When the gleaming of her dress was quite lost , Stephen rubbed his eyes for a moment , and then turned to Martha and Tim .