Rollo on the Atlantic Author:Jacob Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mr. George's plan in respect to the ehililren. Chapter II. The Embarkation. The time fixed for the sailing of the steamer was on Tuesday morning ; and Mr.... more » George, in order to have time to communicate with some of the gentlemen to whose care he intended to intrust the two children, planned his journey to New York so as to arrive there in good season on Monday. He supposed that he should be able, without any difficulty, to find one or the other of them in the afternoon or evening of that day. " And if worst comes to the worst," added he to himself, in his reflections on the subject, " I can certainly find them at the ship, by going on board an hour or two before she sails, and .watching the plank as the passengers come up from the pier." Worst did come to the worst, it seems; for when Mr. George came home at nine o'clock in the evening, on Monday, and Rollo came up to him very eagerly in the parlor of the boarding Jane and Lottie on the stairs. house, to ask him whom he had found to take charge of them, he was forced to confess that he had not found any one. " I am glad of it 1" exclaimed Rollo, joyfully. " I am glad of it! I like it a great deal better to take care of ourselves." He then began dancing about the room, and finally ran off in great glee, to inform Jane of the prospect before them. Rollo was very ambitious of being considered a man. He found Jane sitting on the stairs with another child of her own age, that she had become acquainted with at the boarding house; for it was at a boarding house, and not at a hotel, that Mr. George had taken lodgings for his party. This child's name was Lottie; that is, she was commonly called Lottie, though her real name was Charlotte. She was a beautiful child, with beaming black eyes, a radiant face, and dark ...« less