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Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.
Look at these
twoextracts, for example:Billy Bunter groaned.
On the present awful occasion
the fatOwl of Greyfriars was less inclined than ever to shut up. Except for a
day or two after the rare rainstorms there is neverenough water.
Camels,
castles, palm-trees, Foreign Legionnaires, brasstrays and bandits.
But they are
certainly read byworking-class boys as well.
COULD you tell me how to getthere,
as I would love to sec the building?
As they went past a tall, very young Negro
turned and caught my eye.
But in these cases there is onlyone boy, and usually
it is much the same type of boy.
With all this, the supposed glamour of
public-school life is played forall it is worth.
But it is better to consider
the differences first.
But, I said, isnt it a fact that the average Jew is a
labourerworking for about a penny an hour?
His feelings, infact, were
inexpressible.
Look at these twoextracts, for example:Billy Bunter groaned.
People with brown skins are next door to invisible.
A good many boys now regard
them as old fashioned and slow.
It seemed more like fifteen hours,if not
fifteen days! Theivy clusters thickly round the old grey stones. But what is
strange about these people is their invisibility. What the circulations of
these papers are, I donot know.
Shutting up was not really in Billy Bunters
line.
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