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Jeremy

CHAPTER VI
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Also Mary.
He felt kind to Mary, and when she whispered "Are you enjoying it, Jeremy ?" he answered "Yes; are you ?" Not because he was really enjoying it, but because he knew that she wanted him to say that.
He could see Ernest from where he sat, and he knew that Ernest was laughing at him.

He remembered that he had given Ernest three splendid marbles, just before his departure to school, as a keepsake.

How he wished that he had kept them! He would never give Ernest anything again except blows.

Mary might be tiresome sometimes, but she was his sister, and he greatly preferred her as a girl to Ernest's sisters.

He could see them now, greedy, ugly things...
"Now, Jeremy, wipe your mouth," said Aunt Amy.
He obeyed at once.
III Tea over, they all trooped out into the garden again.


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