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No," announced Corona, after musing awhile, "that would be deception.

I'll have to go to him and make a clean breast of it." It occurred to her that Brother Manby was a friend of hers.
He didn't know much, to be sure; but he was capable of entering into a joke and introducing Timothy to the Wayfarers' Dole.

She tucked the doll under her arm and wended towards the porter's lodge, where, as it happened, she met Brother Copas coming through the gateway in talk with the Chaplain.
The Chaplain in fact had sought out Brother Copas, had found him in his customary haunt, fishing gloomily and alone beside the Mere, and had opened his purpose for once pretty straightly, yet keeping another in reserve.
"The Master has told me he gave you an anonymous letter that reached him concerning Brother Bonaday.