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White and forsaken lay the road from the railway station to their house a cold rush of wind blew her hood from her face, and suddenly she remembered how they had come home together the first night. Now they had five babies and twice as much money; BUT
'I did not mean to be selfish! said Violet, sorry for having seemed to be wanting in sympathy. 'No, indeed! You never think what would become of you left alone, with two babies that cannot walk! 'Never mind me, I shall manage very well, I don't like to have a disturbance made on my account. I cannot think how you can hesitate after such a letter as this. 'That is the very thing.
Babies here are strapped upon pillows, or between pillows, and so tied up and wound up that they cannot move a muscle, except, perhaps, the tongue; and so, exactly like little mummies, they are carried about the street by the nurses, poor little things, packed away so, even in the heat of summer, their little faces looking out of the down in a most pitiful fashion.
Now she must have reasoned in this way: 'My good, kind master has come home, and those dreadful boys who have pinched my ears and tied things to my tail, and teased and frightened me almost to death, will be made to behave themselves. All danger to me and to my babies is over. Why must the pretty dears be hidden away in that musty place?
She tried the bottom with her fore-foot, then waded carefully into the deep stream. She kept her big ears well to the front as she swam to catch the slightest sound. As she stepped on the opposite shore, she shook herself and the boys vigorously, then pulled a few mouthfuls of grass and started on. Soon one of the babies began to cry, and the other was not long in joining him.
I am only a little nervous to-night, my girl. And I want something more satisfactory than a little dog to pet." "I don't think, my lady, you could get anything in the world more grateful, or more faithful, or more easy to manage, than a little dog. Certainly not a baby. Babies is awful, my lady.
The President has had a delicious palaver with a deputation of black folk, talking to them as to babies. I suspect the President is a jewel. I like him very well. If it were not such a bore, I could wish thou mightest be President through this crisis, and show the world what can be done by using two eyes, and turning each thing upside down and inside out, before judging and acting.
He was ridin' out when he saw you an' Jud, an' he said to himself, 'God's good to you, Rufus, my boy; here's a pair of little babies a long way from their ma, an' it ought to count you one. Then he lit off an' offered to wrastle you, heads I win an' tails you lose, for the cake in your pocket, an' then he chucked you under the chin, an' you promised not to tell."
"You taught me, long ago, what was the right thing to say about babies, and how could I be sure it was you until I saw your arms rocking?" "It was so like you," she said reproachfully, "to try to make me do it." "It was so unlike you," he replied craftily, "to let me succeed. And, after all, Grizel, if I was horrid in the old days I always apologized." "Never!" she insisted.
When her next baby was born, despite the opposition of her mother, the doctors, and even of her husband himself who were all vigorously opposed to her nursing her baby herself, a thing then unheard of and considered injurious she insisted on having her own way, and after that nursed all her babies herself.
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