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up to my mother too much. You are quite |
; a large boy now, and ought to be trusted by
yourself a little more. You do not mean
‘0 do anything very bad, and your mother
ought to have some confidence i inyou. She
will expect to watch you always just so,
even after you get to be a man grown, if you
don’t try to break that sort of thing up now.”
oe It is true,” said Clare, with a cloud
‘upon his brow. «I am not allowed to have
my own way half ‘as much as other boys.”
“It is half your own fault,” said Ben.
‘¢ Other boys would not be so tame as to
submit to it. “My! I should. like to see my
- mother interfere with me in that sort of
way.”
| 6 What should you do. if ae did? ” said
- Clare. |

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