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feelawful!" From a large black drawstring purse on the console she took a tissue.
"No need to abuse her," Bray said. "Perhaps the dear girl was simply being hospitable to both of us. Look here, young man, I don't ask you to believe in me; call me an impostor all you like! Let's supposeyou're the real Grand Tutor --a real one, anyhow. . ."
His conciliatory tone surprised me; my first suspicion was that he meant to ingratiate himself with me in hopes of protecting his fraud. "Iam the Grand Tutor," I said coldly.
"Very well, suppose you are, and I'm an impostor, and my success at the Belly and the Grate is some kind of trick, or a malfunction in WESCAC."
I asserted that such exactly was my conviction -- and was pleased to make it so, for that excellent last possibility had not occurred to me.
"Even so," he went on, "you don't claim you're a Graduate yet, do you? Enos Enoch Himself didn't claim so much at your age. who wants a Graduation Assignment. And I'm undeniably the Keeper of the Grate, by the
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