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深圳英语学习班 All the while I was quite lost in admiration of the shrewdness our host displayed in the dispensing of the gifts. Thelittle maid of the many- rubied dowry received the handsomest doll, and the rest of the gifts were graded in valueaccording to the diminishing scale of the parents' stations in life. The last child, a tiny chap of ten, thin, red-haired,freckled, came into possession of a small book of nature stories without illustrations or even head and tail pieces. Hewas the governess's child. She was a poor widow, and her little boy, clad in a sorry- looking little nankeen jacket,looked thoroughly crushed and intimidated. He took the book of nature stories and circled slowly about the children'stoys. He would have given anything to play with them. But he did not dare to. You could tell he already knew hisplace. I like to observe children. It is fascinating to watch the individuality in them struggling for self- assertion. I could seethat the other children's things had tremendous charm for the red- haired boy, especially a toy theatre, in which he wasso anxious to take a part that he resolved to fawn upon the other children. He smiled and began to play with them. Hisone and only apple he handed over to a puffy urchin whose pockets were already crammed with sweets, and he evencarried another youngster pickaback--all simply that he might be allowed to stay with the theatre. But in a few moments an impudent young person fell on him and gave him a pummelling. He did not dare even to cry.The governess came and told him to leave off interfering with the other children's games, and he crept away to thesame room the little girl and I were in. She let him sit down beside her, and the two set themselves busily dressingthe expensive doll. Almost half an hour passed, and I was nearly dozing off, as I sat there in the conservatory half listening to the chatterof the red-haired boy and the dowered beauty, when Julian Mastakovich entered suddenly. He had slipped out of thedrawing- room under cover of a noisy scene among the children. From my secluded corner it had not escaped mynotice that a few moments b efore he had been eagerly conversing with the rich girl's father, to whom he had only justbeen introduced.