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Brother Copas

CHAPTER XXIII
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Never search out ways of rewarding us.

To see you just going about with a light heart is a better reward than ever you could contrive for us by study.
Child, if the gods allowed, I would keep you always like Master Walton's milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do.

But she cast away care--" "I think she must have been a pretty silly sort of milkmaid," said Corona.

"Likely she ended to slow music while the cows came home.
But what worries me is that I'm young and don't see any way to hurry things.

Miss Champernowne won't let me join the cookery class because I'm under the age for it: and I see she talks sense in her way.


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