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mothers who come to this church never
seem able to realise* Oh yesT the girls who
call themselves young ladies are unhappy
about their lovers, and their parents’ views
concerning" them, to say nothing of the fact
that they know they are not dressed in the
latest fashions of the day. The lads who
consider themselves young gentlemen are in
a state of ferment with regard to their
sweethearts, and the tailors’ bills that,
in order to captivate them, they have run
up without their parents knowing. All
these envy the peasant lads and lasses who
seem so healthily cheerful, but who, in their
turn, long for the others’ finery/
* It's a very unsatisfactory world/ said
Fairbrass, ‘ isn’t it ? ’
‘ In a way it is,* said the Kneeling
K night; ‘ and yet, if people didn’t long for
what they havn't got, nobody would try to
get it, and so nothing would ever be done
by anybody I ’
* Ah I ’ said Fairbrass, ‘ there you’re
right. Everybody ought to want to be
