FOOTNOTES:
[A] At first he traces only the outline of the inside figure. Later the square frame is also outlined.
[B] A note here may perhaps clear up a possible misconception. It is to be remembered that all these statements about the necessity for interest in the child’s mind refer only to educative processes. Occasions may arise when it is desirable that a child shall do something which does not interest him—for instance, sit still in a railway train until the end of the journey. But no one need think that he will ever acquire a taste for this occupation through being forced to it.
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The “fighting blade” is a quiet, boyish German soldier serving Cromwell, who, though a deadly duelist, is at bottom heroic and self-sacrificing. He loves a little tomboy Royalist heiress.
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