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Nice thing for the office, Jack!" remarked Marway, who was the finest gentleman, and the lowest blackguard among the clerks. He put his foot on the block. The boy began his task, but did no better with his boots than he had done with Clare's. "Soul of an ass!" cried Marway, "are you going to keep my foot there till it freezes to the block? Why don't you do as Nursie tells you?
I don't think my papa wears his crown for a night-cap. Does he, nursie? 'I never asked him. I dare say he does. 'And she's been there ever since I came here ever so many years. 'Anybody could have told you that, said the nurse, who did not believe a word Irene was saying. 'Why didn't you tell me, then? 'There was no necessity. You could make it all up for yourself.
Its frae bein' sae muckle wi' Maister Cosmo, I'm thinkin' ever sin' he was a bairn, ye ken, sir; for bein' twa year aul'er nor him, I was a kin' o' a wee nursie til him; an' ever sin' syne we hae had nae secrets frae ane anither; an' ye ken what he's like aye wantin' to win at the boddom o' things, an' that's infeckit me, sae 'at I canna rist whan I see onybody un'erstan'in' a thing, till I set aboot gettin' a grip o' 't mysel'."
'It is not very considerate, perhaps, but they have a right to ask to see their own house without being called impudent; and though you mean it kindly, nursie, you and David, I think I should know what is going on in this house, interrupted Stella. 'We'd just better get out of it as soon as we can. Mrs. Stacey came to ask us to go and stay with them; she told me to give you the invitation.
'But, nursie, you don't think Eva is doing what is right, do you? inquired Vava, who was quite put out at this way of taking what the girl had been half-afraid to tell her, for fear the old woman should refuse to have anything more to do with Eva. She was to be yet further surprised, for the housekeeper turned on her severely.
Then nursie's heart gave way altogether, and she began to cry. At the sound of her first sob the princess turned again, and held her face to kiss her as usual. But the nurse had her handkerchief to her eyes, and did not see the movement. 'Nursie, said the princess, 'why won't you believe me? 'Because I can't believe you, said the nurse, getting angry again.
'I am very glad, said Stella; but though she wondered how the old housekeeper had straightened out this tangled web, she was too polite to ask any questions; nor, though they were burning with curiosity, did the other two do so either; Vava because she thought she should hear it from 'nursie, and Amy because she decided that Eva would prefer to tell her when the two of them were alone.
Clare told him he had met Miss Shotover with her sister, and the child seemed so tired he had asked leave to carry her with him, Mr. Woolrige was not pleased, but he said nothing; on the spot the clerks nicknamed him Nursie; and Clare did his best to justify the appellation-he never lost a chance of acting up to it, and always answered when they summoned him by it.
There was a knock at the door, and Mrs. Morrison, bearing a tray, came into the room with a cheery, 'Good-morning, young leddies! 'Oh nursie, I meant to light the fire and get breakfast ready for you! cried Vava. 'What would you do that for?
"It's very uncomfy without my pillow!" whispered naughty Verity, in distinct disobedience to this mandate, as the door of Mrs. Best's room closed. "Dare I go and fetch it?" "Sh! Sh! No!" "I know what we'll give Nursie for a Christmas present," murmured Fil softly. "A nice ornamental tin box of biscuits to keep in her bedroom. She shan't get hungry in the night again, poor dear!" "Sh! Sh!
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