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1  She was a pretty nice girl, though.
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2  She probably knew what a phony slob he was.
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3  It has a very good academic rating, Pencey.
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4  He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home.
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5  I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place.
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6  It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it.
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7  The game with Saxon Hall was supposed to be a very big deal around Pencey.
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8  What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by.
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9  I sat next to her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation.
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10  Quite a few guys came from these very wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway.
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11  All of a sudden I thought of something that helped make me know I was getting the hell out.
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12  What I liked about her, she didn't give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was.
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13  Anyway, it was December and all, and it was cold as a witch's teat, especially on top of that stupid hill.
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14  I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it.
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15  They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hotshot guy on a horse jumping over a fence.
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16  She had a big nose and her nails were all bitten down and bleedy-looking and she had on those damn falsies that point all over the place, but you felt sort of sorry for her.
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17  I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
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