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Her infants had been nursed in the cottages, and not returned to the castle till they were old enough to rough it indeed they were soon sent off to be bred up elsewhere.
It is not an easy matter to experience the pure katharsis of tragedy, with a baby in the room who has to be nursed every hour or two, and who is liable to awaken at any moment and make some demand. He was such an intricate and complicated baby, with so many things to be understood belly-bands and diapers and irrational length of skirts.
Attended by first-rate physicians, tenderly nursed and watched by Lady Bassett and Mary Wells, he got better by degrees; and every stage of his slow but hopeful progress was communicated to the servants and the village, and to the ladies and gentlemen who rode up to the door every day and left their cards of inquiry.
What the men were doing was not at once clear; but in the background rose the dark mass of a post-chaise, and seeing that and one other thing Sir George uttered a low exclamation and felt for his hilt. The other thing was Mr. Dunborough, who, seated at his ease on the step of the post-chaise, appeared to be telling a story, while he nursed his injured arm.
And then he had been taken with ague, and with the fit strong on him had crawled away to Spinny Lane, and had there been nursed by the mother and daughter whom he had ill used, deserted, and betrayed. "When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be;" and now his wife, credulous as all women are in such matters, believed the devil's protestations.
Harkins finally said, and the other doctor nodded in agreement. And Aunt Melissa informed the neighbors that it was "meningitis" and that her darling Ruth could last but a few days. The mother's anxiety reiterated "meningitis," and good, levelheaded Martha King, the nurse, knew that the three cases of meningitis which she had nursed had suffered the same way before they died.
Adieu, my dear young friend, and believe me, Very truly yours, ASPEDEN. You have done me wrong, great wrong. I loved you, I waited on you, tended you, nursed you, gave all up for you; and you forsook me, forsook me without a word.
"Thou foolish child!" declared her mother. "Girls are never satisfied to be girls. And the houseful of children that come afterward!" Marie thought of all the children she had nursed, not her own. Yet she kissed little Aurel with a fond heart. "And Delisse " suggested Jeanne. "Oh, Delisse is to wear the wedding gown her sisters had.
Then he went to astonish the Pennimans with his news, only to find that Winona had secretively nursed it even longer than he had. Mrs. Penniman had also been told of the probability of this great event, but, nevertheless, wept gently when Dave certified to her its irrevocable consummation.
All eyes were on this speaker who seemed to be clothing with effective speech all the hidden convictions of the delegates themselves who had nursed protest without being able to put it into force. Colonel Dodd had seen conventions in similar mood in the old days before the saddle of party had been as securely cinched as it had been in late years.
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