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Brother Copas

CHAPTER XIX
19/33

It outlasts all the more brilliant fashions." "Poverty, sir, is perduring.

It is in everything just because it is out of everything.

We inherit time, if not the earth." "But particularly," said Mr.Colt, "I was thinking of the corporate unity it seems to give us, and to pass on, through us, to the whole story of Merchester." "Aye, we are always with you." Afterwards Brother Copas repented that he had not answered more graciously: for afterwards, looking back, he perceived that, in some way, the Pageant had actually helped to bring back a sense of "corporate unity" to St.Hospital.
Even then, and for months later, he missed to recognise Corona's share in it.

What was she but a child?
"Is it true what I hear ?" asked Mrs.Royle, intercepting him one day as he carried his plate of fast-cooling meat from the kitchen.
"Probably not," said Brother Copas.
"They tell me Bonaday's daughter has been singled out among all the school children--Greycoats and others--to be Queen of the May, or something of the kind, in this here Pageant." "Yes, that is a fact." "Oh!.

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