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قراءة كتاب Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
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Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
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They walked in silence, oppressed by the greatness of their grief | Frontispiece |
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Instantly the air was filled with flying sponges | 4 |
"Good gracious!" cried Miss Dabtree with an impetuous lunge towards the point of attack | 78 |
"Really, Jack, I'm beginning to suspect you're an old hand." | 140 |
He balanced carefully, stretched out one arm to encircle an imaginary waist | 172 |
The partner of his arms, escaping, rolled over towards Tootsie | 182 |
SKIPPY BEDELLE
CHAPTER I
Fate in a Bathtub
THERE comes a moment when without warning boy and puppy instantaneously pass into the consciousness of manhood. With the young canine it comes with the first deep-throated defiance of the intruder, the instinct that the wriggling, fawning days are over and that the moment to attack and accept attack has arrived. With the human puppy the change is more elusive. To some it comes with the first clinging splendor of long trousers, to others with the first hopeless love, when at the tragic age of fifteen the world, fate and the disparity of ages intervene. But usually this transformation, all in the twinkling of an eye, from the hungry slouch of boyhood into the stern and brooding adolescence, comes with the discovery of a controlling idea. Without any apparent cause, some illuminating purpose