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Excerpt from The Truants: A Novel
To-morrow at noon, he repeated to himself, and now he was seized with a Shiver of fear at the thought of the mistakes in behavior which he was likely to make. What if Madame Mardale asked him to break fast? There would be unfamiliar dishes to be eaten with particular forks. Sometimes a knife should be used and sometimes not. He turned back to the parapet with the thought that he had better, perhaps, send up a note in the morning pleading his duties at the school as a reason for breaking his engagement. But he was young, and, as he looked down the steep slope of rock on which the village is perched, anticipa tion again got the better of fear. He began to build up his life like a fairy palace from the foundation of this brief message.
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