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'He attends college-meeting sometimes, and contributes a sarcasm or two on the cramming system of the college. He takes a constitutional to Summertown every day on the least frequented side of the road, that he may avoid being spoken to. And as to his ways of living, he and I happen to have the same scout old Dobson, you remember? And if I would let him, he would tell me tales by the hour.
Rather reluctantly, for he was horrified by the bullying and cruelty which went on during his own day at English schools, my father consented to my mother's desire that we should go to school. After he had taken many precautions, and had ascertained that there was no bullying at Summertown, my elder brother and I were despatched to the school in question.
Jack had sat silent and motionless, too much dazed even to rise and leave her. There was a sound of more voices in the hall, and Charlie Framlingham waltzed into the room with Jack Summertown and subsided at a table by the door. They had hardly begun supper when George Oakleigh entered to say that war had changed from speculation to probability and that officers were being mobilized.
Lord Summertown and a brother-officer waltzed in and became noisily cheerful in one corner.
War had seemed a small thing then, though Jack Summertown was to be killed within six weeks and her cousin Jim within a year. It was a thing remote and only important as postponing her punishment from Jack. "I must get back to London," he said suddenly. "I'm going to ask Summertown for a seat in his car." For dragging minutes she felt her soul being crucified.
Between the ages of twelve and eighteen, at which time I may be said to have become grown-up, Poetry was my life. My schoolboy period was not passed by me at school, except a term and a half at an excellent private school one which still flourishes the MacLaren School at Summertown.
'He attends college-meeting sometimes, and contributes a sarcasm or two on the cramming system of the college. He takes a constitutional to Summertown every day on the least frequented side of the road, that he may avoid being spoken to. And as to his ways of living, he and I happen to have the same scout old Dobson, you remember? And if I would let him, he would tell me tales by the hour.
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