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 As he lay in bed waiting for some one to come to take away the light, he also thought of the day, but he would not listen to his conscience. He said to himself: "How well it was that we were not found out to-day. I came home just in good time. My father saw me running in with my books under my arm, and suspected nothing. We must soon do so again, and then we'll go to the pond and sail in a boat; but if we went to-morrow, our master would come to know what kept us two days from school. The door just then opened, and in walked his mother. "Well, my boy," she said, "do