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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a package of sheets to correct, a whole evening's work, and she has still a private lesson in arithmetic to give to the mistress of a shop before nightfall. Well, Enrico, she said to me as she was going, are you still fond of your schoolmistress, now that you solve difficult problems and write long compositions ? She kissed me, and called up once more from the foot of the stairs: You are not to forget me, you know, Enrico Oh, my kind teacher, never, never will I forget thee Even when I grow up I will remember thee and will go to seek thee among thy boys; and every time that I pass near a school and hear the voice of a schoolmistress, I shall think that I hear thy voice, and 1 shall recall the two years that I passed in thy school, where I learned so many things, where I so often saw thee ill and weary, but always earnest, always indulgent, in despair when any one acquired a bad trick in the writing-fingers, trembling when the examiners interrogated us, happy when we made a good appearance, always kind and loving as a mother. Never, never shall I forget thee, my teacher I IN AN ATTIC. Friday, 28th. Yesterday afternoon I went with my mother and my sister Sylvia, to carry the linen to the poor woman recommended by the newspaper: I carried the bundle; Sylvia had the paper with the initials of the name and the address. We climbed to the very roof of a tall house, to a long corridor with many doors. My mother knocked at the last; it was opened by a woman who was still young, blond and thin, and it instantly struckme that I had seen her many times before, with that very same blue kerchief that she wore on her head. Are you the person of whom the newspaper says Bo and so? asked my mother. Yes, signora, I am. Well, we have brought you a little linen....
| ISBN-13 | 9780217197861 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217197868 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $15.61 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 216 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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