"I should like to see it, just to see it, as one looks through a grating into the king's grape-houses here.

But I should not like to live in it.

I love my hut, and the starling, and the chickens, and what would the garden do without me?
and the children, and the old Annemie?
I could not anyhow, anywhere, be any happier than I am.
There is only one thing I wish." "And what is that ?" "To know something; not to be so ignorant.

Just look--I can read a Little, it is true: my Hours, and the letters, and when Krebs brings in a newspaper I can read a little of it, not much.

I know French well, because Antoine was French himself, and never did talk Flemish to me; and they being Netherlanders, cannot, of course, read the newspapers at all, and so think it very wonderful indeed in me.