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WHEN Maurice had really left the house, John Danvers returned to his untidy, complex room, and threw open both windows.
"Stuffy," he muttered, sniffing as he spoke. "Let in plenty of air -- nothing like air. Now, then, for my supper. Digestion will be all wrong to-night. Oh, good Heavens! what sin have I done, that this appalling dilemma should be presented to me? Won't think of it! Supper comes first, then all those themes. Never heard of a lad like Maurice Ross in all my life before -- won't think of him. That passage in Caesar which I read this morning is worth pondering over; meant to go to sleep on it to-night -- will still. The cheek of that young beggar! won't think of him; I vow I won't! This bacon is destroyed; 'willful waste makes woeful want' -- -- That's what comes of listening to cheeky -- -- Won't revert to that dog."