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top of a camel in Jardin d’Acclimatation
surrounded by dozens of laughing children.
“Do not bring him so many rich toys,” said I,
“children like cheap toys just as well and there
are so many who get none. I have often noticed
that the humble doll à treize sous is always a
great success even in the richest nurseries. When
children learn to understand the money value of
their toys they are driven out of their paradise,
they cease to be children. John has besides
already too many toys, it is time to teach him to
give away some of them to those who have none.
It is a somewhat difficult lesson to learn for many
children. The relative facility with which they
learn this lesson is a safe index to foretell what
sort of men and women they will become.”
Rosalie told me that when they returned from
their drive the beautiful lady always insisted on
carrying John upstairs herself. Soon she
remained to assist at his bath, and ere long it was
she who gave him his bath, Rosalie’s rôle being
limited to handing her the bath towels. Rosalie
told me something that touched me very much.
She told me that when the lady had dried his thin
little body she always kissed the ugly scar on his
arm before putting on his shirt. Soon it was she
who put him to bed and remained with him till
he had fallen asleep. I myself saw little of her,
I was out the whole day, and I feared that the
poor colonel did not see much of her either, she
was spending her whole day with the boy. The
colonel told me that the Mediterranean cruise
had been abandoned. They were to remain in
Paris he did not know for how long, nor did he
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