Excerpt from Quaker Pioneers in Russia She ought to be able to remember Theodosia her mother said, for before they left Okta the little one used sometimes to act as interpreter, giving in Russ to the maid in the kitchen a simple message entrusted to her in English in the parlour. Yes, her father would now and then add, that was an opportunity lost. It would have been easy to keep up her Russ if she had not so persistently asserted on their voyage home that it was only the servants' language and was no longer needed, as ...
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Excerpt from Quaker Pioneers in Russia She ought to be able to remember Theodosia her mother said, for before they left Okta the little one used sometimes to act as interpreter, giving in Russ to the maid in the kitchen a simple message entrusted to her in English in the parlour. Yes, her father would now and then add, that was an opportunity lost. It would have been easy to keep up her Russ if she had not so persistently asserted on their voyage home that it was only the servants' language and was no longer needed, as the servants - represented to her mind by the sailors - all spoke English. The child had, or fancied she had, a dim recollection of this, but it has quite faded now. 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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