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its being pleasant, well, I'll tell you when I knows what's to eat there; and if you'll excuse me I'll be off now, 'cos I believe Doctor Syn is waiting for me."

Indeed at that moment Doctor Syn approached and, putting his hand affectionately on Jerk's shoulder, with a friendly nod to the schoolmaster, he led the boy from the room of inquiry out of the Court House and so to the vicarage, where a cold dinner was already prepared.