. The court jester . yremember the love of a sister, and when the LadyMarguerite smiled at me the first night that I sawher, with a look of kindness that no one else everhad given me, I felt as if I could give up my lifefor her. She always is kind, said the jester; she neveris haughty, even to her servants. I loved her inthe first place because she was her mothers daugh-ter, but now I love her for herself. She neverhas a harsh word or a sharp tongue for the poorfool, and seems to remember that he has feelingsas well as the rest of the world. The edelweiss is a flower which grows upondizzy heig
. The court jester . yremember the love of a sister, and when the LadyMarguerite smiled at me the first night that I sawher, with a look of kindness that no one else everhad given me, I felt as if I could give up my lifefor her. She always is kind, said the jester; she neveris haughty, even to her servants. I loved her inthe first place because she was her mothers daugh-ter, but now I love her for herself. She neverhas a harsh word or a sharp tongue for the poorfool, and seems to remember that he has feelingsas well as the rest of the world. The edelweiss is a flower which grows upondizzy heights, blooming under the snow. Thegreat difficulty sometimes experienced in findingit renders it the more desirable. Philibert hadseen the flower and knew that it usually grewin dangerous places; but this fact did not make himhesitate for a moment in his resolve to pluck searching for some time he was at last re-warded by seeing a cluster of the snowy blossomshanging over the edge of a dark rock some dis- i8q. He lay for some time stunned P*ge 181
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