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`` That is not what attracts Anthony , though , '' spoke Freda . `` I think it has been this new game , into which Anthony has thrown himself with such zest . Perhaps it is good for him to have other things than his books to think of . A short while back he was ever poring over the written page and burning the midnight oil . You said so yourself , Hugh . '' `` Yes , verily ; and I have no quarrel with him for it . I think he is safer playing calcio with Cole than for ever studying the books he gets from Clarke and his friends , as he has been doing of late . ''