Of course it would not have done, as little Charlotte quite understood; for in those days," Dudu observed in passing, "politeness and ceremony were much more observed than is at present, I am sorry to say, the case.
"The little English girl, however," he went on, "was only too delighted to have received permission to visit them in their garden.

And not many days passed on which she did not join them there.

It was a lovely summer that year--I remember it so well.

Never now does the sun seem to me to shine quite so brightly as in those days.

Perhaps it is that I am growing old, perhaps the sad days that soon after followed left a cloud on my memory and a mist on my spirit which have never since entirely cleared away; however that may be, I never remember so bright and beautiful a summer as the one I am telling you of.