`` Yes , I 've heard of him , '' she said . `` Well , it seems that he had a daughter , who was a very beautiful girl , and whom he idolized . She had a fine voice , and he was going to send her abroad to have it trained . And she died . It nearly broke his heart , I understand . But ever since , he sends one young girl away to Europe every year for a thorough musical education under the best teachers -- in memory of his daughter . He has sent nine or ten already ; but I fear there is n't much chance for Sylvia Gray , and she does n't think there is herself . '' `` Why not ? '' asked the Old Lady spiritedly . `` I am sure that there can be few voices equal to Miss Gray 's . '' `` Very true . But you see , these so-called scholarships are private affairs , dependent solely on the whim and choice of Andrew Cameron himself . Of course , when a girl has friends who use their influence with him , he will often send her on their recommendation . They say he sent a girl last year who had n't much of a voice at all just because her father had been an old business crony of his . But Sylvia does n't know anyone at all who would , to use a slang term , have any ` pull ' with Andrew Cameron , and she is not acquainted with him herself . Well , I must be going ; we 'll see you at the Manse on Saturday , I hope , Miss Lloyd . The Circle meets there , you know . '' `` Yes , I know , '' said the Old Lady absently . When the minister 's wife had gone , she dropped her sweetgrass basket and sat for a long , long time with her hands lying idly in her lap , and her big black eyes staring unseeingly at the wall before her . Old Lady Lloyd , so pitifully poor that she had to eat six crackers the less a week to pay her fee to the Sewing Circle , knew that it was in her power -- HERS -- to send Leslie Gray 's daughter to Europe for her musical education !
If she chose to use her `` pull '' with Andrew Cameron -- if she went to him and asked him XXXXX send Sylvia Gray abroad the next year -- she had no doubt whatever that it would be done .
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