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Truth, however, is mighty and will prevail. After a while Zureda began / to observe that something odd was going on about him. Slowly and without / knowing why, he found a sort of distance separating him from his / companions, who treated him and looked at him in a new way. You would / almost have said they were trying to extort from his eyes the confession / of some risque secret he was doubtless keeping well covered up and / hidden; a secret everybody knew. A complex sentiment of curiosity and / silence isolated him from his friends and seemed to befog him with / inexplicable ridicule. After a while he grew much puzzled by this / phenomenon.
"I wonder if I've changed? " thought he. "Maybe I'm sick, without knowing / it. Or can it be that I'm mighty ugly, and nobody dares to tell me so?"