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The Story of a Child

CHAPTER XX
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They are yellow, pink, purple and many other bright colors, and they have the most delicate and varied forms.

Pierre admired them greatly, and the little ones who always followed him would silently offer him hands full.
"Veronica was the most attentive of all.

She was about his own age, perhaps a little younger, six or seven years of age.

She had a sweet, dreamy little face, a rather pale complexion and lovely gray eyes.

She was protected from the heat by a large white sunbonnet; a kichenote, as they call it in that part of the country, is a very old word, and means a large bonnet made of linen and cardboard, which projects over the face like the head-dress of a nun.


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