Capitolo 9
embarrassed by some kind of the guilty half feeling that, partially at least,
it betrays them, and his/her children really and fully they don't do believes that that them
says. They cannot suppose that them mother would really tell them that that
she knew it was false, and still their cannot help perceiving that she doesn't do
you speak and you look as if what she was saying indeed pits true.
_Monsieur and Mrs. Croquemitaine_.
In all the countries they are many, among also the most refined and extremely
cultivated classes that are not to all embarrassed ones from some moral delicacy
of some kind. This is especially the case in those countries in Europe,
particularly on the Continent, where the idea above of it assigned to, of the
allowableness of the falsehood in the certain cases like a means for the attainment
of a good end, you/he/she is generally entertained. French have two terrible
bugbear, under the names of Monsieur and Mrs. Croquemitaine as that it is
family to the imaginations of French children as Saint Claus is, in a
a lot of way more than accord, to the juvenile desire to our fireside of the hearth. Monsieur
and Mrs. Croquemitaine is dreadful monsters that come down the fireplace,
or through the roof, at night and hands away the bad children. They learns from
their _little fingers_--what they whisper in their ears when they contain them to them
nearby--who the bad children are, where they lives, and what they has done.
The instinctive faith of young children in the truthfulness of their mother is
so strongly that any absurdity seems gross enough to overcome him/it.
_The Black Man and the Policeman_.
There are a lot of mothers among us who--although not rather prepared to call
in the help of ghosts, giants and malignant goblins, or of Monsieur and Mrs.
Croquemitaine, in to handle their children--anchor, tries sometimes to round off out,
their authority of weakness threatening them with the bogy man", or the
"police officer", or of the other less, supernatural terror. They seems to imagine
what since, while any there is such what in existence as a malignant goblin,