"Oh, my poor Paul, how I have hurt you! how I have scratched you! what can I do to cure you?" Illustration from "Les malheurs de Sophie", written by the Countess of Ségur in 1858. 1880 edition illustrated by Horace Castelli and published by Hachette.

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