"How much the bird reminds me of the
musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress," said an old knight.
It was her hope that the quiet life and soothing air of Brookport, with--unless you counted the money-in-the-slot
musical box at the store--its absence of the fiercer excitements, might in time pull him together and unscramble his disordered nervous system.
My father accompanied me every day in a drive, and a gradually lengthening walk as my powers of walking increased; and one evening he had agreed to come and fetch me at twelve the next day, that we might go together to select a
musical box, and other purchases rigorously demanded of a rich Englishman visiting Geneva.
