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With the handleless tub as an elbow-rest the teacher took counsel with herself. Strategy must be employed with the intellectual conquest of the Brobdingnags. Summoning all the pedagogical dignity of which she was capable, she asked: "Boys, don’t you want to know how to read?" "Noap," responded the head of the class. "Don’t you want to know how to write?" "Noap."
Scooping his hand into the same scientific elbow-rest as before, and backing it up with the inert strength of his arm, as skilfully as a Police Expert, and with an apparent repose quite unattainable by novices, Mr. Crisparkle conducts his pupil to the pleasant and orderly old room prepared for him.
The winds outside were stilled; the brass candlesticks on the mantel glowed like tapers before an altar. "What keeps you here to-day?" Anthony spread himself over a yielding sofa and made an elbow-rest among the pillows. "Just been here an hour. Tea dance and I stayed so late I missed my train to Philadelphia." "Strange to stay so long," commented Anthony curiously. "Rather. What'd you do?"
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