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Girls practically never joined in our games: even bowling our iron hoops beside their wooden ones was rare. Those girls who did play much with boys were scandalously talked about, but they were older than I was, and I neither knew nor know anything positive against them. I only have an idea that I had seen one of them - a deep-voiced dark-skinned good-looking girl who walked with long strides and a slight stoop - coming from among thick bushes with a boy or two boys. This caused laughter and was afterwards mentioned with hints and jeers
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which I do not think I understood: I became fairly curious and expectant; the veil over the sex thickened.
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Philip Boys ("HistoryBoys")