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To explain Miss St. John's amazement one must recall that a new pupil is, for a short time, a somewhat uncertain thing; and of this new pupil the entire school had talked the night before until it fell asleep quite exhausted by excitement and contradictory stories.
Quieting myself, I rubbed the poor old fellow's head and back, talked to him for a few minutes, and then in an authoritative tone commanded him to follow me, and arising started for the hills.
Drebber said that he had a little business of his own to do, and that if the other would wait for him he would soon rejoin him.
Torvald is so absurdly fond of me that he wants me absolutely to himself, as he says.
