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 She brought out the egg, and he watched her while she broke it, fairly quivering with eagerness; and when she put it down before him in a decorated saucer he licked it up frantically.

"Eggs it is," cried the man. "We have opened our doors and our hearts to an aristocrat, and there is no knowing what the cost will be."

Three raw eggs Pierre ate for breakfast before he was satisfied.

It did not take the people of Sunnyside long to discover that they had been adopted by an epicurean of no uncertain taste. One after another they tried upon him the dishes they had usually fed their dogs; but everything that was not costly and most extraordinary for a dog was refused. Not rudely nor bluntly, but with such grace, and with such consideration