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March 20, 2025Chapter 13Chapter 13The quadrangle surrounding the Far Common was never consideredabsolutely essential to theDevon School. The essence was elsewhere, in the older, uglier, morecomfortable halls enclosingthe Center Common.17 minPlay
March 19, 2025Chapter 12Chapter 12Everyone behaved with complete presence of mind. Brinker shouted thatPhineas must not bemoved; someone else, realizing that only a night nurse would be at theInfirmary, did not wastetime going there but rushed to bring Dr. Stanpole from his house.13 minPlay
March 17, 2025Chapter 10Chapter 10That night I made for the first time the land of journey which later becamethe monotonousroutine of my life: traveling through an unknown countryside from oneunknown settlement toanother.11 minPlay
March 16, 2025Chapter 9Chapter 9This was my first but not my last lapse into Finny’s vision of peace. Forhours, and sometimesfor days, I fell without realizing it into the private explanation of the world.18 minPlay
March 15, 2025Chapter 8Chapter 8“I can see I never should have left you alone,” Phineas went on before Icould recover from theimpact of finding him there, “Where did you get those clothes!”15 minPlay
March 14, 2025Chapter 7Chapter 7Brinker Hadley came across to see me late that afternoon. I had taken ashower to wash off thesticky salt of the Naguamsett River—going into the Devon was like taking arefreshing showeritself, you never had to clean up after it, but the Naguamsett wassomething else entirely.11 minPlay
March 13, 2025Chapter 6Chapter 6Peace had deserted Devon. Although not in the look of the campus andvillage; they retainedmuch of their dreaming summer calm. Fall had barely touched the fullsplendor of the trees, andduring the height of the day the sun briefly regained its summertimepower.14 minPlay
March 12, 2025Chapter 5Chapter 5None of us was allowed near the infirmary during the next days, but Iheard all the rumors thatcame out of it. Eventually a fact emerged; it was one of his legs, which hadbeen “shattered.”14 minPlay
March 11, 2025Chapter 4Chapter 4The next morning I saw dawn for the first time. It began not as thegorgeous fanfare over theocean I had expected, but as a strange gray thing, like sunshine seenthrough burlap.8 minPlay
March 09, 2025Chapter 2Chapter 2Our absence from dinner had been noticed. The following morning—theclean-washed shine ofsummer mornings in the north country—Mr. Prud’homme stopped at ourdoor.10 minPlay