IO Donna
33 |Fashion artisans at work
34 |Now, when anything attracted his attention he always asked what it meant; and his mother, or more frequently Uncle Maxim, would explain to him the nature of the objects or of the creatures that caused these various sounds.
36 |His mother’s explanations, more lively and graphic, impressed the boy with greater force; but sometimes this impression would be too painful.
37 |Upon the features of the young woman, herself suffering, could be read the expression of her inmost feelings, and in her eyes a silent protest or a look of pain, as she strove to convey to the child an idea of form and color.
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