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friend was getting the best of the argument
— (that well-to-do people do not sometimes

envy the poor. Why, only last night my
mother read aloud,

‘ “ 1 would 1 were a milkmaid,
T o sing, love, m arry, churn,

Brew* bake, and die,"
and then said, “ There, that’s exactly what

I feel.” '
* Bosh ! ’ said the Kneeling Knight,

‘ Most of the time she was in church this
morning she was wishing she was more

expensively dressed, and that she could
entertain her friends in the same style as

her more wealthy neighbours. Milkmaid
indeed ! She wouldn’t keep the place a

week* ’
‘ And my father/ said Fairbrass, taking

no notice of this not very polite remark, ‘ is
very fond of repeating: “ Happy men are

full of the present, for its beauty suffices
them ; and wise men also, for its duties
engage them,'1 And I thought of that this

morning, and felt certain he was happy.

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