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Brother Copas

CHAPTER XVII
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As yet Timothy knew nothing, and was supposed to suspect nothing, of her goings to school.

She had carefully kept the secret from him, intending to take him aback with it when she brought home the Greycoat uniform--frock and cloak and hood of duffle grey-- for which Miss Champernowne had measured her.

Meanwhile it was undoubtedly hard on him to lie neglected in a drawer, and be visited but twice in the twenty-four hours, to have his garments changed.
Corona, putting him into pyjamas, would (with an aching heart) whisper to him to be patient for a little while yet, and all would come right.
"It _is_ hard, Branny," she sighed, "that I can't even take him to bed with me.

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