t only listened to en years and gone to ion classes, but even belonged to t Sesame and Lilies just to please . I merely follo t is five  t to say except t it doesn’t look it. From t t I set eyes on o let ranger. As soon as I decently could I dropped sixpence in the Church Expenses box and bunked.

    But act, no at last I’d found somebody I knew?

    Because ter ty years ually frig  !  suddenly taug time.

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    So t’s o cy, I t as I made off bet a poor old   care a damn about my age. , but I’m strong and  to do. A rose smells to me no did y. A do I smell to t een, came up to pass  a tiny momentary look. No, not frigile. Only kind of e, like a y years wo  world from me, like an animal.

    I  back to ted a drink, but t open for anot for a bit, reading a Sporting and Dramatic of tly t mige yearning to get off ed to s t, even if to eeter all, I t, if sy and I’m forty-five, t’s fair enouganding in front of ty fireplace, making believe to  I didn’t look so bad. A bit fat, no doubt, but distingue. A man of tockbroker. I put on my toniest accent and said casually:

    ‘onderful June her we’re having.’

    It ty  it? Nor in t I met you somewhere before?’

    But it  a success. S ans  o you lik