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Expelled.
We had all meant to go home again.

Indeed we had NOT meant--not by any means--to stay as long as we had.

But when it came to being turned out, dismissed, sent away for bad conduct, we none of us really liked it.
Terry said he did.

He professed great scorn of the penalty and the trial, as well as all the other characteristics of "this miserable half-country." But he knew, and we knew, that in any "whole" country we should never have been as forgivingly treated as we had been here.
"If the people had come after us according to the directions we left, there'd have been quite a different story!" said Terry.