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Excerpt from The Juvenile Keepsake Our other friends, said Annie, the grave, thoughtful one of the sisters, want to give us pleasure just for the holidays, to make us exclaim with delight when the parcel is opened on Christmas eve. But father looks forward. He is always think ing of our happiness and usefulness in life. Yes, said Adolphe, his object is to give us pleasure and improvement at the same time, - to mingle the utile with the dulce. How learned some people are, who know a little Latin said Dora, laughing. 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.