Mediterranean paintings
Oil Painting Gallery
She went up to her room and took from her dressing-table several small articles and put them out of sight: a nail-file on the floor under the bed; a pair of nail-scissors under the bureau; a small ivory paper- knife under the wardrobe. Then she returned, and said:
“There! I have left some things which I ought to have brought down.” She named them, and said, “Run up and bring them, dear.”
The child hurried away on his errand and was soon back again with the things.
“Did you have any difficulty, dear?”
“No, mamma; I only went where you went.”
During his absence she had stepped to the bookcase, taken several books from the bottom shelf, opened each, passed her hand over a page, noting its number in her memory, then restored them to their places. Now she said:
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