Aubrey Beardsley paintings

Aubrey Beardsley paintings
Andrea del Sarto paintings
Alexandre Cabanel paintings
Anders Zorn paintings
since she had heard the good words. Peter sat down to the table and began to read. His mother sat beside him listening with surprise and exclaiming at the close of each verse, "Who would have thought it possible!"
The grandmother did not speak though she followed the words he read with strained attention.
It happened on the day following this that there
-272-was a reading lesson in Peter's class. When it came to his turn, the teacher said, --
"We must pass over Peter as usual, or will you try again once more -- I will not say to read, but to stammer through a sentence."
Peter took the book and read off three lines without the slightest hesitation. The teacher put down his book and stared at Peter as at some out-of-the-way and marvellous thing unseen before. At last he spoke, --