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'Maybe she'll look another day. Angel had been born into a real boy's room: he'd grown up surrounded by Wally's tennis and swimming trophies, and th Oh, God, thought Curly Day—let it be me! David Copperfield, in his typical trance, reached his hand o Everyone complained about the baby crying, night and day, and one morning the grown-up daughter had simply taken her [22] baby and gone.

' 'That _would_ be lucky,' Olive said. 'If you got a girl pregnant, what would you do about it. 'She say to tell you you was the nicest,' Muddy told the boy. ' There was either a polite or a stunned silence, or both.