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A Separate Peace by John Knowles Chapter 1 I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than w ...

Like all old, good schools, Devon did not stand isolated behind walls and gates but emerged naturally from the town which had pr ...

Devon was both scholarly and very athletic, so the playing fields were vast and, except at such a time of year, constantly in us ...

us his maniac look, and only the smirk on his wide mouth with its droll, slightly protruding upper lip reassured us that he wasn ...

“Great!” he said, bobbing instantly to the surface again, his wet hair plastered in droll bangs on his forehead. “That’s the mos ...

“I never backed away from anything in my life!” I cried, my indignation at this charge naturally stronger because it was so true ...

wing of one of the buildings accompanied their talk. The sky was darkening steadily, which brought up the lights in the dormitor ...

on, “because we’re all getting ready for the war. What if they lower the draft age to seventeen? Gene and I are both going to be ...

“What’s that thing?” “This is a tablecloth,” he said out of the side of his mouth. “No, cut it out. What is it?” “This,” he then ...

Phineas had soaked and brushed his hair for the occasion. This gave his head a sleek look, which was contradicted by the surpris ...

Mr. Patch-Withers’ face had been shifting expressions and changing colors continuously, and now it settled into fixed surprise. ...

We walked along through the shining afternoon to the river. “I don’t really believe we bombed Central Europe, do you?” said Finn ...

Rigid, I began climbing the rungs, slightly reassured by having Finny right behind me. “We’ll jump together to cement our partne ...

We met every night, because Finny’s life was ruled by inspiration and anarchy, and so he prized a set of rules. His own, not tho ...

Finny began to walk slowly in the direction of the tower. Perhaps he was thinking that we might carry it the rest of the way to ...

“That naturally was completely illegal,” said Finny. “You don’t use your arms when you knock the ball carrier down.” “You don’t? ...

“They’ll get their chance. Now if you are refused three times in the course of running from the tower to the river, you go all t ...

treasures. Newspapers are always crowded with strange maps and names of towns, and every few months the earth seems to lurch fro ...

He planed up the pool, his shoulders dominating the water while his legs and feet rode so low that I couldn’t distinguish them; ...

game during the 1941-1942 season, the Margaret Duke Bonaventura ribbon and prize for the student who conducted himself at hockey ...