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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: THIRD MEMORY. The clouds on childhood's sky do not last long, but after a brief, hot shower of tears vanish away. Thus I was soon again at the Palace, and the Princess gave me her hand which I might kiss, and then she brought her children, 'the young Princes and Princesses, and we played together as if we had known each other for years. Those were happy days, when, after school was over?for by this.time I went to school?I was allowed to go to the Palace ii to play. There we had every thing that heart could desire. Playthings, such as my mother had shown me in the shop-windows, and told me they were so dear that poor people could live a whole week on the money that they cost, I found at the Palace;. and if I begged the Princess, she allowed me to take them home with me and show them to my mother, or sometimes even to keep them for my own. Beautiful picture- books, such as I had seen when I went with my father to the bookseller's, but which were only for very good children indeed, I was suffered to have in my own hands as long as I liked, and to turn over their leaves for hours together; and all that belonged to the young Princes was mine too. At least, so I believed; for I was not only allowed to take home with me what I liked, but often gave the toys away again to other children. In short, I was a young communist in the full sense of the word. But one day, I recollect how the Princess had a golden serpent that coiled itself round her arm as if it were alive, and she gave it us to play with. When I went home, I coiled the snake round my arm, and thought I would give my mother a good fright withit. But on the way, I met a woman who saw my golden serpent, and begged me to show it to her; and then she said, if she might ke...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217481939 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217481930 |
| Weight | 0.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.17 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 72 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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