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1 | +"Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very | |
2 | +decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that | |
3 | +her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never | |
4 | +for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the | |
5 | +gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the | |
6 | +loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began | |
7 | +to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as | |
8 | +far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There | |
9 | +were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the | |
10 | +girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the | |
11 | +deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys | |
12 | +to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to | |
13 | +bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it | |
14 | +would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and | |
15 | +prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to | |
16 | +come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and | |
17 | +hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening | |
18 | +on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss | |
19 | +Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to | |
20 | +his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not | |
21 | +listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, | |
22 | +and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished | |
23 | +away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a | |
24 | +four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of | |
25 | +events, Mr. Windibank!" Once, Aunt Petunia, tired of Harry coming | |
26 | +back from the barbers looking as though he hadn't been at all, had | |
27 | +taken a pair of kitchen scissors and cut his hair so short he was | |
28 | +almost bald except for his bangs, which she left "to hide that | |
29 | +horrible scar. " Dudley had laughed himself silly at Harry, who | |
30 | +spent a sleepless night imagining school the next day, where | |
31 | +he was already laughed at for his baggy clothes and taped glasses. | |
32 | +Next morning, however, he had gotten up to find his hair exactly | |
33 | +as it had been before Aunt Petunia had sheared it off. He had | |
34 | +been given a week in his cupboard for this, even though he had | |
35 | +tried to explain that he couldn't explain how it had grown back | |
36 | +so quickly. Another time, Aunt Petunia had been trying to force | |
37 | +him into a revolting old sweater of Dudley's. The harder she tried | |
38 | +to pull it over his head, the smaller it seemed to become, until | |
39 | +finally it might have fitted a hand puppet, but certainly wouldn't | |
40 | +fit Harry. Aunt Petunia had decided it must have shrunk in the wash | |
41 | +and, to his great relief, Harry wasn't punished. On the other hand, | |
42 | +he'd gotten into terrible trouble for being found on the roof of the | |
43 | +school kitchens. Dudley's gang had been chasing him as usual when, | |
44 | +as much to Harry's surprise as anyone else's, there he was sitting on the chimney. | |
45 | +The Dursleys had received a very angry letter from Harry's headmistress telling | |
46 | +them Harry had been climbing school buildings. But all he'd tried to do | |
47 | +was jump behind the big trash cans outside the kitchen doors. | |
48 | +Harry supposed that the wind must have caught him in mid-jump. | |
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