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"Twenty," Hervey said, "twenty and two-thirds. Just a fraction more and I'd have gone over the top." "You mean a sub-division?" Tom asked. "That's where the little but comes in," Hervey said. "B-u-t, but. It's a big word, all right, just as you said." "Is it architecture or cooking or interpreting or one of those?" Tom asked. Hervey glanced at Tom in frank surprise.
Boys and girls, each on their own side, disappeared through the gate; and the street was now silent as the grave. After a while, there came through the open window of the school first a sort of buzzing and humming and then a repetition in chorus, a rhythmical spelling aloud: b-u-t, but; t-e-r, ter: butter; B-a, Ba; b-e-l, bel: Babel; ever on and more and more noisily.
B-u-t," he added with reflective slowness, and a merry twinkle in his eye, "if things were to be judged by their product, I am afraid your mother would win easily," and he laid his long, thin, scrawny hand beside the broad, strong hand of the growing youth. "Old Sylvanne wasn't far astray when he said: 'There aren't any sick, 'cept them as thinks they are," said Rolf.
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