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After a third day's concentration they knew by heart everything given to them to learn.
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“After a third day's concentration they knew by heart everything given to them to learn.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The Lost Prince
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1915
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Meaning of “After a third day's concentration they knew by…”

The narration connects sustained concentration across several days with mastery of the assigned material rather than portraying learning as instantaneous.

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The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. The material being memorized is fictional mission information, while the quoted sentence simply describes the learning process.

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Narrator description of the boys’ mastery after several days of concentration.

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