Excerpt from Harper's Young People, 1889, Vol. 10: An Illustrated Weekly It would be a great thing to say, The little Jansen girls go to our school, and every tongue already tingled to tell the news. At recess a few of the braver spirits gathered about the new-comers, and plied them with ques tions. Was it true that they could speak both French and German, and that not one word of English was ever heard in the house? 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.