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"Oh, Bruce, the sycamore you painted is gone!" called Patricia, not turning. "Come and see!" "What, already?" exclaimed Patricia rapturously. "You duck! Tell me all about it instantly." Griffin chuckled. "You see, I was in the ante-room, cataloguing the prints—you know I got that job last week. Well, the Board was droning on in the big room in their usual uninteresting fashion and I was deep in admiration of a Rembrandt etching—that one with the hat and the open window behind him—when Green sails past me, head up and majesty writ large on her bulging brow. She always does put on lugs when she reports to the Committee, so I didn't sit up and take notice right away. But in a minute or two I came to life, I can tell you! She was rolling off the sentences about 'injustice to a high-minded student' and 'unnecessary humiliation' and 'reparation to one who was an ornament to any school,' and a lot of other junk like that. I tell you, I could have hugged the old girl! The Board just sat still, like school-boys caught stealing jam, and she went on, getting more flowery all the time.".
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"Hush, he's coming," warned Patricia, turning pale in spite of her brave words. "Listen, he has begun." (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LIGHT OF THE HARUMSCARUM) "Can't find anything," he said at last, letting me go and looking carefully at my face. His eyes were all anxiety; and I liked it. "When does it hurt you, and how?" he asked anxiously. "Battersea!" cried Jen, thunderstruck. "Did he see the body carried off?".
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