[Conscience by Hector Malot]@TWC D-Link bookConscience CHAPTER VI 4/12
It is quite natural, since you are always in my heart and in my thoughts.
I told mamma that if the storm continued I would dine at the pension.
You can imagine with what joy I listened to the wind all day, and watched the rain and leaves falling, and the dead branches waving in the whirlwind. Thank God, the weather was bad enough for mamma to believe me safe at the pension; and here I am.
But we must not fast.
I shall go and buy something to eat, and we will play at making dinner by the fire, which will be far more amusing than going to a restaurant." She put on her cloak quickly. "Set the table while I make my purchases." "I have my article to finish that will be sent for at eight o'clock. Just think, I have three tonics to recommend, four preparations of iron, a dye, two capillary lotions, an opiate, and I don't know how many soaps and powders.
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