My young friend!...
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Jeanne spoke to me about herself to-day. I think she was quite bewildered by the extraordinary fall of leaves which has almost blinded us the last three days. She was doing my hair, and tracing a line straight across my forehead, she remarked:
"Here should be a ribbon with red jewels."
I told her that I had once had the same idea, but I had given it up out of consideration for my fellow creatures.
"But there are none here," she exclaimed,
I replied laughing:
"Then it is not worth while decking myself out!"
Jeanne took out the pins and let my hair down.
"If I were rich," she said, "I would dress for myself alone. Men neither notice nor understand anything about it."