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| 1 | 11 | My View more quotes about mother">mother, whom he inquired after, had died when I was about six, somewhere about the time I entered school. |
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| 1 | 8 | Let us say simply that it is not a common name, not common on this world of ours. |
| 1 | 9 | It was given to me by my father, who disappeared when I was quite young. |
| 1 | 10 | I thought him dead until I received his strange message, more than twenty years after he had vanished. |
| 1 | 11 | My mother, whom he inquired after, had died when I was about six, somewhere about the time I entered school. |
| 1 | 12 | Biographical details are tedious, so suffice it to say that I was a bright child, fairly large for my age, and was given a creditable upbringing by an aunt who furnished everything that a child might need, with the possible exception of love. |
| 1 | 13 | Surprisingly enough, I managed to gain entrance to the University of Oxford, but I shall not choose to embarrass my college by entering its somewhat too revered name in this narrative. |
| 1 | 14 | I graduated decently, having failed to astound either myself or my tutors. |