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Tommy Talisker was probably one of the most unassuming boys that ever lived. At all events everybody said so. And this is equivalent to stating that the boy's general behaviour gave him a character for modesty.
He was the youngest of a family of five; the eldest being his only sister, and she, like her mother, made a good deal of Tommy, and thought a good deal about him too in certain ways.