For wearing this, he is Scoffed at and derided; but an angel comes and touches it into leaf, and speaks words of comfort, "hard to understand," being the language of a higher world.
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Alfred Gatty
But the cook Scoffed at the idea.
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Charles Garvice
"Of course," he Scoffed but he did not know.
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Steven Sills