Book 1
Book 1 - Chapter 1. Love At A School
_ BOOK I CHAPTER I. LOVE AT A SCHOOL
A procession of schoolboys having to meet a procession of schoolgirls on the Sunday‘s dead march, called a walk, round the park, could hardly go by without dropping to a hum in its chatter, and the shot of incurious half-eyes the petticoated creatures--all so much of a swarm unless you stare at them like lanterns. The boys cast glance because it relieved their heaviness； things were lumpish and gloomy that day of the week. The girls, who sped their peep of inquisition before the moment of transit, let it be seen that they had minds occupied with thoughts of their own.
Our gallant fellows forgot the intrusion of the foreign as soon as it had passed. A sarcastic discharge was jerked by chance at the usher and the governess--at the old game, it seemed； or why did they keep steering columns to meet? There was no fun in meeting； it would never be happening every other Sunday, and oftener, by sheer to

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