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His brothers had nicknamed him Meany—probably just to confuse him. He made them all meet in Nurse Angela's office, as if he took comfort from the litter of paper and the gloomy, surrounding presence of his massive _A Brief History of St. Grandfather examines the case of a Lucy Nickerson, who died in 1880 of an eclamptic condition that . _ The orphans in the girls' division were accustomed to hearing this book read aloud—in fact, Homer used to read to them.

Something in Mrs Grogan's transfixed appearance may have been responsible for the rumor begun in the boys' division, possibly by Curly Day: that Mrs. Where have _you_ been? Melony thought, but she didn't utter a word; the degree that she had mellowed could be confused with not caring much anymore. Homer had the bewildered expression on his face of the many patients Larch had observed emerging from the spell of ether. '_ By the time Homer was fifteen, his reading oit _David_ _Copperfield_ was so successful that some of the older girls in the girls' division asked Dr.