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1 It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true.
2 It was only about two inches away, but he missed anyway.
3 He didn't say it just sarcastic, but sort of nasty, too.
4 I know that sounds mean to say, but I don't mean it mean.
5 Old Spencer asked me something then, but I didn't hear him.
6 I would, I really would, but the thing is, I have to get going.
7 His door was open, but I sort of knocked on it anyway, just to be polite and all.
8 Quite a few guys came from these very wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway.
9 He made out like he was only pinching it, but he was really getting the old thumb right in there.
10 It was just before dinner and it was getting pretty dark out, but we kept chucking the ball around anyway.
11 I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it.
12 After I shut the door and started back to the living room, he yelled something at me, but I couldn't exactly hear him.
13 It kept getting darker and darker, and we could hardly see the ball any more, but we didn't want to stop doing what we were doing.
14 She had a big nose and her nails were all bitten down and bleedy-looking and she had on those damn falsies that point all over the place, but you felt sort of sorry for her.
15 I didn't mind the idea so much, but I didn't feel like being lectured to and smell Vicks Nose Drops and look at old Spencer in his pajamas and bathrobe all at the same time.
16 You couldn't see the grandstand too hot, but you could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on the Pencey side, because practically the whole school except me was there, and scrawny and faggy on the Saxon Hall side, because the visiting team hardly ever brought many people with them.
17 IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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