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The little lamp with the green shade which she holds in her hand throws a greenish light over her sleepy, freckled face, her scraggy neck, and the lank, reddish hair that strays from under her cap. "Can I see the midwife?" asks the gentleman. "I am the midwife. What do you want?"
During this frightful night a shadowy figure prowled in the corridors, silently patrolled the rooms, and came now and then to the door of the bedroom, where he conferred in a low tone with the midwife and the Marchioness de Bouille.
The gangway swung under the weight of two people and sabots sounded on the bridge, while a voice cried: "Tobias! Tobias! get the lantern and light Madame Puzzel." Tobias took one of the candles and carefully sheltered it with his hand as he opened the door. "This way," he cried, holding it ajar. "This way!" The midwife stepped down the ladder, and a man followed her. "Ah!
'Tis the duplication of one and the same greatness of soul; only what lessened the honour of it, somewhat, in my mother's case, was, that she could not heroine it into so violent and hazardous an extreme, as one in her situation might have wished, because the old midwife had really some little claim to be depended upon, as much, at least, as success could give her; having, in the course of her practice of near twenty years in the parish, brought every mother's son of them into the world without any one slip or accident which could fairly be laid to her account.
And it couldn't have happened at a better time, as we've got to have the midwife anyhow!" Lasse and Pelle drew their neckerchiefs up over their mouths after taking leave of every one in the room, Kalle circling round them restlessly, and talking eagerly. "Come again soon, you two, and thanks for this visit and your present, Brother Lasse!
At the close of King Philip's War the Council of Connecticut paid Mrs. Allyn £20 for her services to the sick, and Mistress Sarah Sands doctored on Block Island. Sarah Alcock, the wife of a chirurgeon, was also "active in physick;" and Mistress Whitman, the Marlborough midwife, visited her patients on snow-shoes, and lived to be seventy-eight years old, too.
This pamphlet of the prelate reduced the patrons of the infamous midwife to silence, for several young noblemen whose mothers had been attended by her did not relish the idea of their family secrets being brought to light. At Bologna I saw Madame Marucci, who had been expelled from Spain for the same reason as Madame Pelliccia.
They put her to bed again after this cruel drive, and seeing that nobody took her view, she threw herself into the arms of Providence, and consoled herself by religion; the midwife administered violent remedies to deprive her of milk; she got over all these attempts to murder her, and slowly got better.
At last, summoning up her courage, she said, "I have got well through this with Albert." "Oh! you have," said Lord M. It was decidedly a family match. Prince Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg Gotha for such was his full title had been born just three months after his cousin Victoria, and the same midwife had assisted at the two births.
When the difficulty of labour arises from a dead child, it is a great danger to a mother and great care ought to be taken therein; but before anything be done, the midwife ought to be well assured that the child is dead indeed, which may be known by these signs. The breast suddenly slacks, or falls flat, or bags down. A great coldness possesses the belly of the mother, especially about the navel.
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