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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 1
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I read all about it, and I have copied the words quite right.
It is a beautiful house, all the furniture solid and strong, no casters off the chairs, and the tables not scratched, and the silver not dented; and lots of servants, and the most decent meals every day--and lots of pocket-money.
But it is wonderful how soon you get used to things, even the things you want most.

Our watches, for instance.

We wanted them frightfully; but when I had mine a week or two, after the mainspring got broken and was repaired at Bennett's in the village, I hardly cared to look at the works at all, and it did not make me feel happy in my heart any more, though, of course, I should have been very unhappy if it had been taken away from me.

And the same with new clothes and nice dinners and having enough of everything.

You soon get used to it all, and it does not make you extra happy, although, if you had it all taken away, you would be very dejected.


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