19/19 Then, as we could not buy him a new cap in the Gardens, he was obliged to walk about for the rest of the time bare-headed; and many were the people who turned round to look a second time after the beautiful boy with the long fair hair--a fact of which Master Lionel was not quite unconscious, I think. I longed to see the pantomime, having heard much from my cousins and from Leo of its delights--and of the harlequin, columbine, and clown. But my father wanted to be at home again, and he took me and Rubens and Nurse Bundle with him at the end of November.. |