Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) by Marie Bashkirtseff
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Marvel, but that doesn't matter.
We got into the landau again, and went to the station. Our friends came there, one after another. I skipped about, I laughed, I chattered like a bird. How kind they are, and how hard it is to leave them. "You feign this gaiety," said B----to me, "but in your heart you are weeping, I am sure of it." "Ah! you think so? No! "When to Nice you bid good-bye, Unfeigned joy is in your eye. Easy 'tis from Nice to part, For she never wins your heart." "Bravo! Bravo!" The quatrain was made one evening when we were capping verses with G----. "Give me some cigarettes," I said softly to my aunt. "Very well, later." I thought she had forgotten, but at Monaco she wrapped a number in paper and gave them to me. She, who cries out when I ask her for them at home. At Monaco we parted, and those horrid cigarettes made me cry. I was sorry for the poor old grandfather, my aunt, |
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