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The Good French Governess-7
Favoretta, with this hope of a future queen-cake, in addition to all her brother’s arguments, at last determined to return Grace’s present —“Herbert says I had better give it you back again,” said she, “because Mad. de Rosier does not know it.” Grace was somewhat surprised by the effect of Herbert’s oratory, and she saw that she must change her ground. The next day, when the children were walking with Mad. de Rosier by a pastrycook’s shop, Herbert, with an honest countenance, asked Mad. de Rosier to give Favoretta and him a queen-cake. She complied, for she was glad to find that he always asked frankly for what he wanted; and yet that he bore refusals with good humour. Just as Herbert was going to eat his queen-cake, he heard the sound of music in the street; he went to the door, and saw
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