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'defer definite action pending his decision in the matter.' It's our busy day. Have you seen us arguing with the polers?"
"Yes, I saw him even tackle Lengthy about it a minute ago."
"What, the corpse itself? Oh, good!" said Armstrong.
"At least I saw Lengthy looking very much surprised and deeply affected. The old man was old-manning him hard."
"I think it's very unkind of him," remarked one of the others, "to use his great influence and strength of character to set all our dear classmates against us."
"Oh, well, you know that's because he gave me another chance to confess," said Preston Brown, "but I wouldn't listen to the 'voice of experience' or the 'words of reason' worth a cent, though it was just after chapel and I ought to have been in a remorseful frame of mind. But I did look careworn with anxiety, all right."
"Didn't you confess this time?" asked Armstrong.
"No, it's foxier to pretend to be a brazen
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