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Marked by innocence, trust, frankness, and ingenuousness

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  • Faith small, world strong; but this evening something like grasping after "the childly life beyond."
  • So, please, go on telling us about snalis and stop with such childly lack of tolerance toward religious people.
  • Then when we got our new dining table I bought two oilcloth covers for it - the top one is a childly flowers-and-suns-and-insects pattern, but under it, for semi-special...
  • "Ah! you have kept much of the childly heart," answered Philippa smiling.
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