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"That is for your iway of getting behind curtains, and for

the look you had in your eyes two minutes since, you rat!"

Accusto to

it; my care was how to endure the blohich would certainly follow

the insult

"What were you doing behind the curtain?" he asked

"I was reading"

"Show the book"

I returned to theand fetched it thence

"You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama

says; you have no , and not to live here with gentlemen's children like us, and eat

the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our e s to me, or will do in a few years Go and stand by

the door, out of the way of the mirror and the s"

I did so, not at first aas his intention; but when I saw

him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I