Once she found time to think that she would have missed a great deal if she had not come to Bay Shore Farm that day . Surely talking to a woman like Mrs. Kennedy was better than looking at Sara Beaumont from a distance . `` I 've been ` rewarded ' in the most approved storybook style , '' she thought with amusement . In the afternoon , Grandmother Newbury packed Mrs. Kennedy and Frances off for a walk . `` The old woman wants to have her regular nap , '' she told them . `` Frances , take Mrs. Kennedy to the fern walk and show her the famous ` Newbury Bubble ' among the rocks . I want to be rid of you both until tea-time . '' Frances and Mrs. Kennedy went to the fern walk and the beautiful `` Bubble '' -- a clear , round spring of amber-hued water set down in a cup of rock overhung with ferns and beeches . It was a spot Frances had always loved . She found herself talking freely to Mrs. Kennedy of her hopes and plans . The older woman drew the girl out with tactful sympathy until she found that Frances 's dearest ambition was some day to be a writer of books like Sara Beaumont . `` Not that I expect ever to write books like hers , '' she said hurriedly , `` and I know it must be a long while before I can write anything worth while at all . But do you think -- if I try hard and work hard -- that I might do something in this line some day ? '' `` I think so , '' said Mrs. Kennedy , smiling , `` if , as you say , you are willing to work hard and study hard . There will be a great deal of both and many disappointments . Sara Beaumont herself had a hard time at first -- and for a very long first too . Her family was poor , you know , and Sara earned enough money to send away her first manuscripts by making a pot of jelly for a neighbour . The manuscripts came back , and Sara made more jelly and wrote more stories . Still they came back . Once she thought she had better give up writing stories and stick to the jelly alone .
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