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CHAPTER I.

Passing by the School.

It followed that as the spring advanced, Dick walked abroad much more frequently than had hitherto been usual with him, and was continually finding that his nearest way to or from home lay across the field at the corner of the school. The first-fruits of his perseverance were that, on turning the angle on the nineteenth journey that way, he saw Miss Fancy's figure, clothed in a dark-gray dress, looking from a high open window upon the crown of his hat. The friendly greeting, which was the result of

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