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194 A FRENCH STORY
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justice The only Th thing is o remar ften brin kable s him ut in th to b quarrels oy is his w inborn ith the sen gamins se of
. g know of the ou neig hbourhood in the ri , but htonl ( as he drive remarks that con ) " vi Blows ction , more when home you y
and fix y it firmer . " g The , turning point in his character he describes as being the following little incident : —
of fruit A countryman passed one who day often and drove stopped his ( donkey as usual throug ) at the h our public street -house with a a load few
somethin doors up , . g even " We boys to look wer e always much on fruit that the , he so qui cool vive , so when tempting he chestnuts cam . This e by ; time and it was we .
bod mouth saw y throug soon s watered h suggested the as rents we that m in arked the one sack how of the smooth holes was and mig c arry shiny easil ing th y ey be looked made ; . a Some little our
larger going . to I run sai his d no finger ; but into the majority the rent c when arried I it jumped ; and the in boldest front of the us sack was just and it said I wo ell uld I not could have but it touched at last . they The all "b fell oy gav on me e me and a black I was eye knocked , I returned over
the man the sack chestnuts , w off tumbling ran as my all companions about upon ; me me and , while The bursting man I was was as ly it half fell under drunk . Out the and rushed donkey far the too ' s feet country angry with to - ,
bleeding listen to and my exp indign lanations ant . , M so . comrades he gave me _laug a sound at me thrashing unmercifull , and y I _^ w perhaps ent off hoseemed to feel that
t their and houg from h laug my hte tha wo r t unds hel day ped hur forth t me my good they character brought princip was les no fixed shame any ; w for with I beside them : I stood reward firm the it ,
chestnu brings w t seller th it , a good done nam somethin e is also a w o onderful re for me chech than for the future y teaching . So that virtue must be its own reward . "
of thing a model Don them ; ' Pierre t ) boy expect he _, growing Henri does , from has not up this his get steadil specimen faults on y the , into ( . bad , t ri hat a ht temper model you track have s man eems without to . to deal No be hel s with one uch p .
His father ; indeed is a poor sottish fellow g who ( when the lad is twelve old ) falls off a scaffolding the day after one of his
years from drinking his bouts father , ' s but country he has , who a good gives angel him in good a-master advice mason , good
worthy training Auvergnot , good everything has a strange , excep horror t education . u What ,, of 's the which good the of
of worrying" scholars the lad with and his I can alp ' habet t read ? a I ' ve . got Put on as a well trowel as and any rap
your ,
194 A French Story
194 A FRENCH STORY
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/50/
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