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Just David

CHAPTER XIX
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Father never would have called those beautiful.

Then there are others like little Jimmy Clark who can't walk, and the man at the Marstons' who's sick, and Joe Glaspell who is blind.

Then there are still different ones like Mr.Holly's little boy.
Perry says he ran away years and years ago, and made his people very unhappy.

Father wouldn't call that a beautiful world, would he?
And how can people like that always play in tune?
And there are the Princess and the Pauper that you told about." "Oh, the story ?" "Yes; and people like them can't be happy and think the world is beautiful, of course." "Why not ?" "Because they didn't end right.

They didn't get married and live happy ever after, you know." "Well, I don't think I'd worry about that, David,--at least, not about the Princess.


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