The answer so exactly tallied with the words he had spoken a moment ago that Brother Copas could not help exclaiming-- "Ah! You overheard us, just now ?" "I may have my faults," said Corona coldly, candidly, "but I am not a listener." "I--I beg your pardon," stammered Brother Copas, somewhat abashed.
"But the fact remains that your behaviour to Nurse Turner has been most disrespectful, and your language altogether unbecoming.
You have given your father and me a great shock: and I am sure you did not wish to do that." "I'm miserable enough, if that's what you mean," the child confessed, still hugging her golliwog and staring with haggard eyes at the window.

"But if you want me to say that I'm sorry--" "That is just what I want you to say." "Well, then, I can't.

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