The Waldorf family . the trees appeared laden with fruit from Aladinsenchanted garden; while the richly-tinted cloudsof purple and gold hung over all, like the draperiesof some regal canopy. The wonderful magnifi-cence of the evening seemed to fill the imaginationsof all those who beheld it; and it was not untilthe glorious hues of sunset had faded into the grayof twilight, that the children seated themselves tohear another of the Breton ?1 IP IB IB ©HEME, MH MM ©IP THE GOLDEN BASIN AND THE DIAMOND LANCE. /•i POOR idiot, whose name wasPeronnik, who had neither fa-ther nor mother, bro
The Waldorf family . the trees appeared laden with fruit from Aladinsenchanted garden; while the richly-tinted cloudsof purple and gold hung over all, like the draperiesof some regal canopy. The wonderful magnifi-cence of the evening seemed to fill the imaginationsof all those who beheld it; and it was not untilthe glorious hues of sunset had faded into the grayof twilight, that the children seated themselves tohear another of the Breton ?1 IP IB IB ©HEME, MH MM ©IP THE GOLDEN BASIN AND THE DIAMOND LANCE. /•i POOR idiot, whose name wasPeronnik, who had neither fa-ther nor mother, brother norsister, but owed every thing tothe charity of strangers, oncelived in Brittany. He wanderedabout as he pleased. If he wasthirsty, he drank at the brook; if hewas hungry, he begged some crustsfrom the farmers wife; if he wassleepy, he found a bundle of straw, andcrept into it, like a lizard. As forclothes, he was not so badly off as manyof his tribe; for his cloth breeches only wanted part 148
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