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acation was over, and Vivian returned to Burnsley Vicarage. He bowed cavalierly to Mr. Dallas on his arrival, and immediately sauntered up into the school-room, where he found a tolerable quantity of wretches looking as miserable as school-boys, who have left their pleasant homes, generally do, for some four-and-twenty hours. "How d'ye do, Grey?" How d"ye do, Grey?" burst from a knot of unhappy fellows, who would have felt quite delighted, had their newly arrived co-mate condescended to entertain them, as usual, with