The Children Selling Violets
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Thonon-les-Bains (today: Thonon-les-Bains, France)
As the Master stepped down from the car, about fifteen peasant children with bunches of violets to sell closed in on Him, formed a half circle around Him, holding up the little purple bunches, raising their eyes to His Face with grave astonishment. They pressed so close that they hid Him below the waist, and the benediction in the look He bent on them I shall never forget. Of course He bought all the violets, drawing from His pocket handfuls of francs. But when He had given to each child bountifully, they held out their hands for more! "Don't let them impose!" cried Laura. "Tell them," said the Master very gently, "that they have taken."
Source: The Diary of Juliet Thompson (Thonon, France, August 1911).
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