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Part 1 - Chapter 1. The Lesson
_ PART I PART I CHAPTER I. THE LESSON
"Then he‘s such a prig!" said Olga.
"You should never use a word you can‘t define," observed Nick, from the depths of the hammock in which his meagre person reposed at length.
She made a face at him, and gave the hammock a vicious twitch which caused him to rock with some violence for several seconds. As he was wont pathetically to remark, everyone bullied him because he was small and possessed only one arm, having shed the other by inadvertence somewhere on the borders of the Indian Empire.
Certainly Olga--his half-brother‘s eldest child--treated him with scant respect, though she never allowed anyone else to be other than polite to him in her hearing. But then she and Nick had been pals from the beginning of things, and this surely entitled her to a certain licence in her dealings with him. Nick, too, was such a darling； he never minded anything.
Having duly punished him for snubbing her, she

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