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I made my way up on the beach and lay down. Finny came, ceremoniously took my pulse, and then went back into the ocean. He staye ...

Chapter 4 The next morning I saw dawn for the first time. It began not as the gorgeous fanfare over the ocean I had expected, bu ...

That night in our room, even though I was worn out from all the exercise, I tried to catch up to what had been happening in trig ...

“You wouldn’t—” I wasn’t sure I had the control to put this question—”mind if I wound up head of the class, would you?” “Mind?” ...

good but exceptional, with Chet Douglass my only rival in sight. But I began to see that Chet was weakened by the very genuinene ...

disregarded patches of ground revealed that they had been gardens all along, and nondescript underbrush around the gymnasium and ...

I began to feel a little uneasy at this mildness of his, so I sighed heavily. “Never mind, forget it. I know, I joined the club, ...

We followed our gigantic shadows across the campus, and Phineas began talking in wild French, to give me a little extra practice ...

I spent as much time as I could alone in our room, trying to empty my mind of every thought, to forget where I was, even who I w ...

“But he must be able to,” I burst out, “if his leg’s still there, if you aren’t going to amputate it— you aren’t, are you?—then ...

I flinched violently away from him. “To drag me down too!” He kept looking vaguely over my face. “To get hold of you, so I would ...

“Finny, I’ve got something to tell you. You’re going to hate it, but there’s something I’ve got to tell you.” “My God, what ener ...

“I brought ... Well I never remember to bring anyone anything.” I struggled to get my voice above this self-accusing murmur. “I’ ...

My own voice sounded quiet and foreign. “I jounced the limb. I caused it.” One more sentence. “I deliberately jounced the limb s ...

I grinned at him. “Oh no, I wouldn’t do that,” and that was the most false thing, the biggest lie of all. Chapter 6 Peace had de ...

Devon after all, wintery Devon. If you broke the rules, then they broke you. That, I think, was the real point of the sermon on ...

I stopped in the middle of this hurrying day to remember him like that, and then, feeling refreshed, I went on to the Crew House ...

“How many?” “Who knows? Get some. As many as you can carry. That won’t be too many.” Jobs like mine were usually taken by boys w ...

other. It was easy enough now to see why. For Quackenbush had been systematically disliked since he first set foot in Devon, wit ...

Someone was coming toward me along the bent, broken lane which led to the dormitory, a lane out of old London, ancient houses on ...