G. is now eleven and, in a sentimental mood one day, muses about the natural washing out to sea of a pebble which he had hidden at the beach only the day before. G. is struck with melancholy, not for the loss of the pebble per se, but for the bittersweet feeling of seeing anything for the last time. G's sentimentality remains as he views the village school for the last time before departing, knowing that he will be attending a high school the next year.
Later on that day, G. is overwhelmed by the news that Trumper is going to America. The two friends spend their last day together re-tracing the paths of their childhood. Boy Blue and Bob had taken paths different from G.'s academic one and they remain friendly but not.....
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