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A surely perfect happiness gazed bravely out from her mother's eyes, changed in some mysterious way since the coming of Robin. "Well?" he said, as she gave him back the letter. "It's very kind of her. Esme Darlington turns us all into swans, doesn't he? He's a good-natured enchanter. How thankful she must be that it's all right about her boy. Oh, here's Robin! Robino, salute your father!
"And besides," he said slowly, and as if with some hesitation, "you used to long for a very quiet life, for the religious life; didn't you?" "Once, but it seems such ages ago." "And yet Robin's not a year old yet." She looked at him with a sudden, and almost intense, inquiry; he was smiling at her. "Robino maestro di casa!" he added. And they both laughed.
And as it is the religion of the Ingleses, founded on the practice of their celebrated saint, Robino Hoodo, to levy funds from the rich for the benefit of the needy, hold out thy sombero, and we will bestow a trifle upon thee. So saying he poured back the plunder; to which was added, to the astonishment of the receiver, some supplementary pieces that nearly equalled the original sum.
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