So, Harold grew in stature and intelligence, without a suspicion of the real identity of the square-jawed man with the irregularly-shaped nose who came and went mysteriously in their semi-detached, red-brick home. He was a self-centered child, and, a...
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So, Harold grew in stature and intelligence, without a suspicion of the real identity of the square-jawed man with the irregularly-shaped nose who came and went mysteriously in their semi-detached, red-brick home. He was a self-centered child, and, accepting the commercial traveller fiction, dismissed the subject from his mind and busied himself with things of more moment.
(a) Who kept the identity of the square-jawed from Harold?
(b) Who was ‘the square-jawed man’?
(c) What was Harold told about his father?
(a) Harold’s parents and Major Percy Stokes kept the identity of the square-jawed from Harold.
(b) Mr. Bramble was ‘the square jawed man’.
(c) He was told that his father was a commercial traveller.
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