[The Tapestry Room by Mrs. Molesworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tapestry Room CHAPTER V 15/21
We know our place in society.
We disapprove of newfangled notions.
We are frogs--we desire to be nothing else, and we are deeply sensible of the honour Monsieur and Mademoiselle have done us by this visit." "He really speaks very nicely," said Jeanne in a whisper. "Before Monsieur and Mademoiselle bid us farewell--before they leave our shores," continued the frog with a wave of his "top legs," as Jeanne afterwards called them, "we should desire to give them what, without presumption, I may call a treat.
Monsieur and Mademoiselle are, doubtless, aware that in our humble way we are artists.
Our weakness--our strength I should rather say--is music.
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