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to know everything there was to be known at once. You old boys simply took advantage of the situation.” I stood there shaking in ...

“Completely over the falls. I wanted to be sure you’d recovered. That’s why I called up. I knew that if you’d let them put anybo ...

rehearsal: after you hit the water you made big splashes with your hands, to scatter the flaming oil which would be on the surfa ...

“I’ll bet you knew all the time Finny wouldn’t be back this fall. That’s why you picked him for a roommate, right?” “What?” I pu ...

With a snap of the neck I shook his hand off me, my teeth set, “Brinker ...” He raised an arresting hand. “Not a word. Not a sou ...

I swung on the younger boy. “What did I do then?” I demanded. “I’ll bet you’ve got a lot of theories. Come on, reconstruct the c ...

and the novelty and money of these days excited us. Life at Devon was revealed as still very close to the ways of peace; the war ...

“You think there’s a path through those woods?” he asked in his mild tentative voice when I got near. Leper did not switch easil ...

“Going to work on the railroad.” He kept gazing mildly and curiously at me. “Shovel out those tracks. That work they talked abou ...

All of us lined both sides of the track and got ready to cheer the engineer and passengers. The coach windows were open and the ...

We were all tired at the end of that day. Walking back to the school grounds from the railroad station in the descending darknes ...

“Yes,” agreed Leper after a thoughtful pause, “there you are.” “Here we are,” I said, pulling Brinker around the corner we had r ...

Others, the Quackenbushes of this world, could calmly watch the war approach them and jump into it at the last and most advantag ...

“There. You should have worn that all day, just that. That has real taste. The rest of your outfit was just gilding that lily of ...

available, to be achieved probably before night fell again. Now, in this winter of snow and crutches with Phineas, I began to kn ...

“Yeah,” said Brinker. “Enlist!” cried Finny at the same time. His large and clear eyes turned with an odd expression on me. I ha ...

Brinker reared back arrogantly. “And who do you think I am!” But Finny hadn’t heard that. His face had broken into a wide and da ...

did. From the outside the buildings were reticent, severe straight lines of red brick or white clapboard, with shutters standing ...

“I know, I know. I’m going to work. I really am going to work. You’re going to pull me through mostly, but I am going to work as ...

Phineas looked down here and there, at the exercise bar over a sand pit next to the wall, at a set of weights on the floor, at t ...