[Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookBrother Copas CHAPTER XIV 8/17
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. I've learnt that much of the one female child it has ever been my lot to observe; and the Lord may allow me to enjoy the success towards the close of a life largely spent in misunderstanding boys. Stay a moment--" Brother Copas stood with corrugated brow. "I have it! I remember now that she asked me, two days ago, if I didn't think it disgusting that so many of our English Peers went and married American heiresses merely for their money.
Probably she supposes that on these means our ancient nobility mainly finances itself.
She amused me, too, by her obvious reluctance to blame the men.
'Of course,' she said, 'the real fault is the women's, or would be if they knew what's decent.
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