He did not look at all like a schoolboy doing an exercise, but like a research worker solving a problem.
I did not find him really agreeable. On the contrary, I had one or two little things against him.
With me he was too distant and superior, he was much too provokingly sure of himself,
and the expression of his eyes was that of an adult—which children never like—rather sad with occasional flashes of scorn.
Yet I could not resist looking at him, whether I liked him or not.
But the minute he looked in my direction I looked away, somewhat frightened.
If today I consider what he looked like as a schoolboy, I can say that he was in every respect different from the others,
and bore the stamp of a striking personality and therefore attracted attention.
But at the same time he did everything to prevent himself from being remarked—
he bore and conducted himself like a disguised prince who finds himself among peasant boys and makes every effort to appear like them.
He was behind me on the way home from school. When the others had run on, he overtook me and said: “Hello!”
Even his manner of greeting, although he imitated our schoolboy tone of voice, was polite and like that of a grown-up person.
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