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  It was left to the Dean, unfeeling to the end, to say the last word in the Combination Room after one such meal. ‘He may not have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but by God he’s going to die with one.’

  In his corner by the fire the Master was seen to twitch deferentially at this joke at his own expense, but then Skullion had always known his place.

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  Copyright © Tom Sharpe 1974

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