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 | | They turn back down the hill, walk to the highway, then along it next to the hospital, past the Swedish church with its high steeple, past the high school behind its iron spiked fence, past the English church with bats in its belfry, to the front of the Kings Bar. |
 | | Clayton Cliftons mother Princess is a maid at The Cottage, like his grandmother was when she came from Sweden. |
 | | He hopes she doesn't see it, she wouldn't know what it was, and he passes his hand back and forth once or twice in front of him as he jiggles in his walk, missing a step, as if he is adjusting his pants. |
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