Author: Jane Benson

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Published: 2015-06-28

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781330471500

Excerpt from Quaker Pioneers in Russia We have in our possession a number of pictures, some lithographs, others coloured prints, which were bought in the city of Petersburg nearly eighty years ago. They used to be a source of great pleasure to a certain little child, especially when her father or mother could be induced to "talk about Russia," and add personal recollections to the suggestions of the pictures. They were, in fact, the child's first conscious connection with that vast country. Her parents told her it was her native land, and they introduced to her by description some of its inhabitants. For instance, they spoke of Theodosia, the maid who was so often guilty of drinking out of the night-light glass the oil on which the little float depended for feeding its dim flame. It was a strange taste of the maid's the child thought, and it was a pity that, in order to gratify it, she took oil that was not her own. They told her also of the frosty morning when the same girl had rushed screaming to her mistress declaring that the bed was on fire upstairs! The crackling and flashing of the electric sparks her own energetic parting of the bedclothes had induced, could be nothing less than real fire "she was sure." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.