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“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 ...

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 ...