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"Though I know he is troublesome sometimes--but I think

it was too much His body is covered withnow to have done,

with the twinkling, tiny wrinkles of an ironical smile at the

corners of his eyes He felt himself master of the

situation

"And he was violently sick I couldn't possibly send him to

school to-day He couldn't keep his head up"

Yet she had no answer

"You will understand, sir, why he is absent," she said,

turning to Mr Harby

"Oh, yes," he said, rough and off-hand Ursula detested him

for his male triu

"You will try to have it remembered, sir, that he has a weak

heart He is so sick after these things"

"Yes," said the headmaster, "I'll see about it"

"I know he is troublesome," the woman only addressed herself

to the male now--"but if you could have hi--he is really delicate"

Ursula was beginning to feel upset Harby stood in rather

superbto him to tickle him as one

tickles trout

"I had co, sir You