Excerpt from Miss. Lily's Voyage Round the World: Undertaken in Company With Masters Paul HE papa and mamma of Miss Lily have been obliged to start suddenly for Paris. They have left her, and Masters Paul and Toto, her two cousins, who have lost their parents, at their pretty estate where they pass their summers, in charge of Miss Dora, their English governess, and of old J eannettc, the cook. Everything has gone on finely at first, but now Miss Dora has fallen ill, and the children, no longer occupied with their tasks, ...
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Excerpt from Miss. Lily's Voyage Round the World: Undertaken in Company With Masters Paul HE papa and mamma of Miss Lily have been obliged to start suddenly for Paris. They have left her, and Masters Paul and Toto, her two cousins, who have lost their parents, at their pretty estate where they pass their summers, in charge of Miss Dora, their English governess, and of old J eannettc, the cook. Everything has gone on finely at first, but now Miss Dora has fallen ill, and the children, no longer occupied with their tasks, pass the time in playing, rambling in the park, and reading. Master Paul, who is going to be a sailor, has been reading histories of voyages, and Miss Lily, Robinson Crusoe. These stories, which they have understood only imperfectly, as they are not precisely adapted to children of their ago (miss Lily being only seven, and Master Paul not eight years old), have turned their heads. They talk of nothing but voyages; they dream of nothing but desert islands. Even Master Toto, though he is only four, and naturally of a quiet disposition, is excited by these conversations, of which he has not lost a word. 0, what happy people travellers must be exclaims Miss Lily, cv e1y moment. But you you have already made a V.oyage O say s Lily, I was too small then; so that goes 101 nothing' If I were all grown up, says Master Paul, I would like to go around the world, and more than once, toofi' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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