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"I COULD be perfectly happy if I could live always in a cottage like that, and look-out on such a view! " sighed Vera, as she and her mother sat one evening on a stile, and looked over into a peaceful field, covered with daisies, and with a pond in front whose deep shadows were now and then broken by snowy ducks swimming across them.
Her mother smiled a little, but did not otherwise answer.