He is very quiet, and if Maria did not excite him so--upon my word, she is more of a boy than he--your Amedee would always be looking at the pictures.

My Louise hears him read every day two pages in the Moral Tales, and yesterday he amused Gerard by telling him the story of the grateful elephant.

He can go to school later--wait a little." But M.Violette had decided to send Amedee to M.Batifol's.

"Oh, yes, as a day scholar, of course! It is so convenient; not two steps' distance.
This will not prevent little Amedee from seeing his friends often.

He is nearly seven years old, and very backward; he hardly knows how to make his letters.