He felt convinced that Jonas was again the Jonas he had known a week ago, and not the Jonas of the intervening time.
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Intervening
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Well, why is he intervening?
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"Tom is often absent from lessons." "But he leaves the house with his satchel every morning and comes back at midday." "Be that as it may, it's clear that he doesn't always spend the intervening time at school."
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Through the intervening fortnight he ran about and smiled outwardly at his inward thoughts, as if they were people meeting and nodding to him—smiled with that singularly beautiful irradiation which is seen to spread on young faces at the inception of some glorious idea, as if a supernatural lamp were held inside their transparent natures, giving rise to the flattering fancy that heaven lies about them then.
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