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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 ...

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 ...