Book Excerpt: ree figures? They were geometrical figures, weren't they? Triangles?"She formed a triangle with her two fore-fingers and her two thumbs:"There, the shape was like that. . . . As for their arrangement . . ."She picked up a twig that had fallen from a tree and was beginning to draw lines in the sand of the path when a whistle sounded."That's god-father's signal when he wants me in the Yard," she cried."No," I said, "to-day it's for me. We fixed it.""Does he want you?""Yes, to tell me about his discovery.""Then I'll come too.""He doesn't expect you, Bérangère.""Yes, he does; yes, he does."I caught hold of her arm, but she escaped me and ran to the top of the garden, where I came up with her outside a small, massive door in a fence of thick planks which connected a shed and a very high wall.She opened the door an inch or two. I insisted:"Don't do it, Bérangère! ItRead More