The Heart of a Boy (Cuore) 12+

📗 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... APRIL Spring Saturday, the 1st THE first of April! Only three months more! This has been one of the most beautiful mornings of the year. I was happy in school because Coretti had asked me to go day after to-morrow to see the king come. We are going with Coretti's father, who knows him! And my mother has promised to take me 4305 that same day to visit the Infant Asylum in the Corso Valdocco. I was happy, too, because the "Muratorino" is better, and because yesterday evening the master, passing by, said to my father: "He is doing well. He is doing well." 4310 And then, it was a beautiful spring morning. From the school windows we could see the blue sky, the trees in the garden all covered with buds, the windows of the houses wide open, with their flower boxes and vases already grow43i5 ing green. The master did not laugh, for he never laughs, but he was in such good humor that the wrinkle in the middle of his forehead scarcely showed. And he joked while he was explaining a problem 4320 on the blackboard. And you could see that he liked to breathe the garden air that came in l'88] through the open windows full of the fresh, sweet smell of earth and leaves, suggesting walks in the country. While he was explaining, there could be hear...