[Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookBrother Copas CHAPTER IV 13/21
However do they find the time for it ?" "Eh, it takes time," said Nurse Branscome, amused.
"You'll find that's the main secret with us over here.
But--disappointed, are you ?" "Oh, no--no--no!" the child assured her.
"It's ten times lovelier than ever I 'spected--only," she added, cuddling down for another long gaze, "it's different--different in size." "England's a little place," said Nurse Branscome.
"In the colonies-- I won't say anything about the States, for I've never seen them; but I've been to Australia in my time, and I expect with Canada it's much the same or more so--in the colonies everything's spread out; but home here, I heard Brother Copas say, if you want to feel how great anything is, you have to take it deep-ways, layer below layer." Corona knit her small brow. "But Windsor Castle is a mighty big place ?" she said hopefully. "Oh, yes!" "Well, I'm glad of that anyway." "But why, dear ?" "Because," said Corona, "that is where the King lives.
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