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Jasmin: Barber

CHAPTER II
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"Thank God," she said, "thou learnest well; and this is the reason why, each Tuesday, a white loaf comes from the Seminary.

It is always welcome, for the sake of the hungry little ones." "Yes," he replied, "I will try my best to be learned for your sake." But Jasmin did not long wear the cassock.

He was shortly after turned out of the Seminary, in consequence of a naughty trick which he played upon a girl of the household.
Jasmin tells the story of his expulsion with great frankness, though evidently ashamed of the transaction.

He was passing through the inner court one day, during the Shrove Carnival, when, looking up, he caught sight of a petticoat.

He stopped and gazed.


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