The President's Daughters

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Excerpt from The President's Daughters: Including Nina Every kind of pomp and ostentation, all kinds of display before any species of public (now, heaven knows, so common among our women), were rejected by her, and she considered that a woman could, in her family circle alone, be happy as a good daughter and tender wife and mother, pleasing to her Maker, and useful to her fellow-creatures!" To all this I listened with a sort of edification. I felt that I ought to make some remark upon it, but I did not exactly know how. "Certainly, " I began, but the President interrupted me. "If the late Frederika had lived, " said he, "her daughters would have had in her the surest model on which to fashion themselves to perfection, but the Almighty determined otherwise! My best Mamselle, " added he, with as much warmth as seriousness and kindness, "be that mother to them, impress on their young souls the lessons which she would have given them, guide them according to the excellent principles which were hers, and in which I shall feel it always my duty and pleasure to instruct you - give them that tenderness, that motherly care" - his emotion prevented his continuing, and he ended hastily by saying, "and you cannot demand anything which will be beyond their father's gratitude!" I replied with emotion, and with all the earnestness I felt in my desire to be useful. "The education of my two elder daughters, " continued the President, "is nearly completed. Edla is twenty, Adelaide seventeen. They require now more than ever, at their entrance into the world, a guiding friend. My two little darlings, on the other hand, Nina and Mina, require to be taught everything from the A B C. They are all to-day gone to dine at my sister-in-law's, but I expect them home every moment. I long to introduce them to you." At that very moment a carriage stopped at the door, and we saw the young ladies alight. The President rung hastily and ordered in candles, and it was with a mixed feeling of curiosity, interest, and anxiety, that I awaited the entrance of my future pupils. 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.