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Deliverance from my troubles came from quite an unexpected quarter, and / with it something new entered into my life, which has up to the present / day exercised a strong influence.
A short time before we had had a new boy at our Latin school. He was / the son of a well-to-do widow who had moved to our town. He was in / mourning and wore a crape band round his sleeve. His form was above / mine, and he was several years older, but I soon began to take notice / of him, as did all of us. This remarkable boy impressed one as being / much older than he looked. He made on no one the impression of being a / mere schoolboy. With us childish youngsters he was as distant and as / mature as a man, or rather, as a gentleman. He was by no means popular, / he took no part in the games, much less in the fooling. It was only the / self-conscious and decided tone which he adopted towards the masters / that pleased the others. His name was Max Demian.