nkey. Look what a face its making. Hes the ugliest babv I ever tj * ** saw, etc. These ingenuous remarks were the unbiased opinionspronounced upon every new Anton as it appeared. They say that children and fools speak the truth. The middle chamber wasalso the room which our big brother occupied… … THE MIDDLE CHAM HE II. 49 until breakfast time, when he sedately descended in his slippersto read the morning paper in quiet reserve. He was his moth-ers hope, and his fathers joy, — and well he might be, forhe was held up before us as an example of everything that wasnoble and worthy of imitation…
Auton House (Providence, R.I.) · Children's literature
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