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[place = inline] [⃞][0435] I have not been able to find out why Sapo was not expelled.
[0436] I shall have to leave this question open.
[0437] I try not to be glad.
[0438] I shall make haste to put a safe remove between him and this incom-
prehensible indulgence, I shall make him live as though he had been
punished according to his deserts.
[0439] We shall turn our backs on this
little cloud, but we shall not let it out of our sight.
[0440] It will
not cover the sky without our knowing, we shall not suddenly raise
our eyes, far from help, far from shelter, to a sky as black as
ink.
[0441] That is what I have decided.
[0442] I see no other solution.
[0443] It is
the best I can do.
[place = inline] [⃞][0444] At the age of fourteen he was a plump rosy boy.
[0445] His wrists and
ankles were thick, which made his mother say that one day he would
be eveb [place = inline] [⁁] [place = margin left] n[ [place = supralinear] n] bigger than his father.
[0446] Curious deduction.
[0447] But the most
striking thing about him was his big round head horrid with flaxen
hair as stiff and straight as the bristles of a brush.
[0448] Even his
teachers could not help thinking he had a remarkable head and they
were all the more irked by their failure to get anything into it.
[0449] His father would say, when he was [place = margin left] [₰] in good humour, One of these days
he will astonish us all.
[0450] It was thanks to Sapo's skull that he
was able [place = margin left] enabled [ [place = supralinear] enabled] to hazard this opinion and, in defiance of the facts and
against his better judgement, to revert to it from time to time.
[0451] But he could not endure the look in Sapo's eyes and went out of
his way not to meet it.
[0452] He has your eyes, his wife would say.
[0453] Then Mr Saposcat chafed to be alone, in order to inspect his eyes
in the mirror.
[0454] They were palest blue.
[0455] Just a shade lighter, said

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