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Fraternity

CHAPTER X
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Nothing shall make me continue my line.
In me the end is reached.

See my back: 'The Amateur.

This perfect style, 8s.11d.Great reduction.'" He would not talk to Hilary, and the latter was compelled to watch the shopmen.

It was but half an hour to closing time; the youths were moving languidly, bickering a little, in the absence of their customers--like flies on a pane unable to get out into the sun.

Two of them came and asked him what they might serve him with; they were so refined and pleasant that Hilary was on the point of buying what he did not want.
The reappearance of the little model saved him.
"It's thirty shillings; five and eleven was the cheapest, and stockings, and I bought some sta---" Hilary produced the money hastily.
"This is a very dear shop," she said.
When she had paid the bill, and Hilary had taken from her a large brown-paper parcel, they journeyed on together.


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