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future. If my own land were but as happy a one as 
this, I should love the blue sky better.” 
Mary wished that it was. She hoped she should 
never go to that country, where good people were 
put in prison. It was something she could not un¬ 
derstand, and instead of going to the meadow, she 
returned thoughtfully to her mother to tell her the 
sad story she had heard. 
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