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Eric

CHAPTER IX
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7; and Eric among the number.

Bull was the tempter.

Secretly, gradually, he dropped into their too willing ears the poison of his polluting acquirements.
In brief, Bull was cursed with a degraded and corrupting mind.
I hurry over a part of my subject inconceivably painful; I hurry over it, but if I am to perform my self-imposed duty of giving a true picture of what school life _sometimes_ is, I must not pass it by altogether.
The first time that Eric heard indecent words in dormitory No.

7, he was shocked beyond bound or measure.

Dark though it was, he felt himself blushing scarlet to the roots of his hair, and then growing pale again, while a hot dew was left upon his forehead.


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