But I can make no further digression.

The sapling requires different soil and care from the tree.

I am grateful to my mother for removing us in time from the unrest of Berlin life.
FIRST STUDIES .-- MY SISTERS AND THEIR FRIENDS.
My mother told me I was never really taught to read.

Ludo, who was a year and a half older, was instructed in the art.

I sat by playing, and one day took up Speckter's Fables and read a few words.