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Jeremy

CHAPTER VII
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Life without her would be impossible; he would not know what to do about the simplest matter.

Life without her...oh! but it was incredible! Like a blind man he had groped his way up to the schoolroom.

He did not want to see the children, nor Miss Jones, but he must be moving, must be doing something that would break in upon that terrible ominous pause that the whole world seemed to him, at this moment, to be making.
Then he saw Jeremy.

He said: "Oh! Where's Miss Jones ?" "She's in the next room," said Jeremy, looking at his father.
"Oh!" He began to walk up and down the schoolroom.

Jeremy left his toy village and stood up.
"Is Mother better, Father ?" He stopped in his walk and looked at the boy as though he were trying to recollect who he was.
"No...


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