midday
How patient she had to be ! How ingenious , vigilant , and sympathetic ! Through working upon the souls of Jimmy 's father and mother by pathetic appeal she obtained permission to keep him an hour after school each day and drill him step by step , inch by inch . She brought her midday meal and shared it with him . In the evening she framed cunning devices to lure his budding intelligence . And from the very first she beheld her figure of human ignorance respond to her gentle moulding . Jimmy 's soul was first of all a hot-spring of ambition ; the evidences of which , when once recognized , were ever paramount .