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HAMLET WAITS.
I The last day! Jeremy, suddenly waking, realised this with a confusion of feeling as though he were sentenced to the dentist's, but, oddly enough, looked forward to his visit.

Going to school, one had, of course, long ago perceived, was a mixed business; but the balance was now greatly to the good.

It was a step in the right direction towards liberty and freedom.

Thank Heaven! No one in the family was likely to make a fuss about his departure, unless it were possibly Mary, and she had, of late, kept very much to herself and worried him scarcely at all.