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The excellent Reinharts found other more subtle ways of showing their real friendship. He had also sent a certain number to the libraries of Leipzig and Berlin, with which he had dealings through his classbooks. For the moment at least their touching enterprise, of which Christophe knew nothing, bore no fruit.
How insipid, how forbidding were the usual classbooks, the second-rate natural histories above all, stuffed with dry statements, with raw knowledge, which brought nothing but the memory into play! How many youthful faces had grown pale above them!
At twelve o'clock precisely, the examining committee being in their places, the classbooks on the table before them, the classes ranged in order in front of them, and the greater part of the company assembled, the business of the examination commenced in earnest.
There is power and truth she can shake and she can pierce but I wish half the book away, it is so tedious every now and then; and besides I want more beauty, more air from the universal world these classbooks must always be defective as works of art. How could I help being disappointed a little when Mrs.
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