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Wysłany: Sob 11:46, 16 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: and was ashamed to be |
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http://www.public4you.fora.pl/our-blogs,6/i-am-the-head-boynow,70804.html#107470
skilland of book-learning tooI was made infinitely more
uncomfortable by the considerationthatin what I did knowI was
much farther removed from my companions than in what I did not.
My mind ran upon what they would thinkif they knew of my familiar
acquaintance with the King's Bench Prison? Was there anything about
me which would reveal my proceedings in connexion with the
Micawber family - all those pawningsand sellingsand suppers - in
spite of myself? Suppose some of the boys had seen me coming
through Canterburywayworn and raggedand should find me out?
What would they saywho made so light of moneyif they could know
how I had scraped my halfpence togetherfor the purchase of my
daily saveloy and beeror my slices of pudding? How would it affect
themwho were so innocent of London lifeand London streetsto
discover how knowing I was (and was ashamed to be) in some of the
meanest phases of both? All this ran in my head so muchon that first
day at Doctor Strong'sthat I felt distrustful of my slightest look and
gesture; shrunk within myself whensoever I was approached by one of
my new schoolfellows; and hurried off the minute school was over
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