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I was never good at my books." With these sentences and the pauses that came between them they reached a little hillock, on the top of which grew several slim trees.
"D'you mind if we sit down here ?" said Arthur, looking about him.

"It's jolly in the shade--and the view--" They sat down, and looked straight ahead of them in silence for some time.
"But I do envy those clever chaps sometimes," Arthur remarked.