When the maid came to clear up the room, she didn't know anything about their value, of course, and she thrust her hateful brush right in and destroyed them all.

She is a savage, an ignorant savage.

I did as you told me, dear aunty.

Not one tiny little frog even have I carried in my pockets, not even a beetle; and this is the result.

I will not tell you all the things I had found; I couldn't bear to describe them.
Two such beauties of beetles--bright red wings, the body lilac blue, and glittering as any precious stone! Such a rare species! And an oleander-sphinx! And my magnificent caterpillar of the humming-bird moth!--you know, aunty, that one with yellow stripes and blue eye-spots.