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Rollo in Geneva Jacob Abbott Author

by Jacob Abbott

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Book Excerpt : ...In season for what? asked his father.Why, to save my dinner, said Rollo.Yes, said his father; it might be in season to save your dinner, but that is not what I am planning to save. I have no particular uneasiness about your dinn... Read more
Book Excerpt : ...In season for what? asked his father.Why, to save my dinner, said Rollo.Yes, said his father; it might be in season to save your dinner, but that is not what I am planning to save. I have no particular uneasiness about your dinner.Why, father! said Rollo, surprised.I have no wish to have you go hungry, replied his father; but then if by any chance you happened to be late at dinner, it would be of no great consequence, for you could buy something, and eat it in the diligence by the way. So I was not planning to save your dinner.Then what were you planning to save, father? asked Rollo.My own and mother's quiet of mind, replied Mr. Holiday, especially mother's. If five minutes of the dinner hour were to come and you should not appear, she would begin to be uneasy; and indeed so should I. In such cases as this, children ought always to come before the time when their parents would begin to feel any uneasiness respecting them.Rollo... Less

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File size6.00(w)x9.00(h)x0.27(d)
Print pages126
PublisherCreateSpace Publishing
Publication date November 30, 2015
ISBN9781519592941
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Jacob Abbott
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Abbott was born at Hallowell, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820; studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824; was tutor in 1824-1825, and ...

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