"What do the ladies say about it ?" "Miss Dorner says that I am the most obstinate being in the whole world, and that no one can ever set me right," was Cornelli's truthful information.

Then she added: "She says that no child on earth looks as ugly as I do and that nobody in the world will ever like me.

I know that it is true, and I only wish nobody were coming to you; then I could always be alone with you." "Cornelli, I am quite sure that you would do right in obeying the ladies," said Martha.

"If you did what they say, they would love you as well as everybody else does." "No, no, Martha, you don't know how it is," Cornelli said, quite frightened.

"I'll do everything they say, but I can never push my hair away, for then it would be worse still and everybody could see it." Martha shook her head.
"I do not know what you mean, Cornelli.