And I said: “If the seriousness of life were not now confronting me” – and I didn’t add that I had been feeling this seriousness only a short time, since my resolution to marry – “I would have kept on transferring from one department to another.” Then, to make them laugh, I remarked on a curious thing: I always dropped a subject just at the moment when I had to face examinations. “A coincidence,” I said, with the smile of one who wants to hint he is telling a lie. And, indeed, the truth was that I had changed my courses in all seasons. So I set out to win Ada and I continued my efforts to make
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