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"Oh how I wish that I had lived / In the ages that are gone! " / A CHILD'S WISH.
It was -- did I say so before? the children's first visit to Paris. They had travelled a good deal, for such small people quite "a _very_ good deal," as Molly used to maintain for the benefit of their less experienced companions. They knew England, "of course," Ralph would say in his lordly, big-boy fashion, Scotland too, and Wales, and they had spent some time in Germany. But they had never been in Paris, and the excitement on finding the journey safely past and themselves really there was very considerable.