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Dora, more staid as became her years, was trying to act the matron with them in vain, and old nursie had enough to do with Miss Connie's baby to heed what the young gentlemen were about, so long as explosions of noise was all the mischief.
"But I can't sit here long, nursie; my day's work, or rather my night's work, is not yet finished." "Not yet? Oh, Madeline, my little nursling, give up these wild plans and plots; they will bring you no good." "Won't they?" nodding significantly. "I think they will do me good, and you, too, Nurse Hagar; and before very long, too.
Ryan; indeed you are a friend, and I will come to you for advice, she said. 'And, do you know, you remind me a little of nursie, our housekeeper at Lomore, only she is Scotch; but I can understand your way of speaking, and that's more than I can the people at school, Vava remarked, with such a tone of disgust that the other two laughed. But Stella looked relieved. 'So that's it, is it?
For seventy odd years she had worked and struggled and sometimes very nearly starved and here was some one assuring her that these struggles were over forever, that she needn't work hard any more, or ever worry again. Could it be true? And all to come from Miss Cynthia's daughter! Robinette bent down and kissed the wrinkled old face softly. "Good-night, Nursie dear," she said.
'Why, where can you have been, princess? asked the nurse, taking her in her arms. 'It's very unkind of you to hide away so long. I began to be afraid Here she checked herself. 'What were you afraid of, nursie? asked the princess. 'Never mind, she answered. 'Perhaps I will tell you another day. Now tell me where you have been.
Fancy, she is lending Eva the thirty pounds, and she is seeing the man herself; so we need not bother about a lawyer or anything! she cried. But Stella did not look at all pleased, and saying, 'Indeed! she walked straight into the kitchen to have it out with nursie, who received her remonstrances very calmly.
And Schmidt would be granted another reprieve by the Powers that Were. Suddenly Blackie beckoned the nurse in the doorway. She came swiftly and bent over him. "Gimme two minutes more, that's a good nursie. There's something I want to say t' this dame. It's de rigger t' hand out last messages, ain't it?" The nurse looked at me, doubtfully. "But you're not to excite yourself."
"Bimbi says maybe he's going to be my daddy one day didn't you, Bimbi?" said his little lordship, climbing up on to "Bimbi's" knee and snuggling close to him. "I say, you know, you mustn't tell secrets, old chap!" was the laughing response. "Miss Lorne will hand you over to Nursie with orders to put you to bed if you do, I know. Won't you, Miss Lorne?"
A young lady, prettily dressed and pleasant to look at, recited a poem about a certain "nursie" who in the course of her professional duties tended one "Percy." In the second verse nursie fell in love with Percy, and, very properly, Percy with her. In the third verse they were married. The audience shouts with laughter, yells applause, and wants to encore.
"These new houses be terrible dear, bain't they?" the old woman said anxiously. "Not a bit; besides that's another matter I want to settle with you, Nursie. I'm going to pay the rent always, and you're going to have a nice little girl to help you with the work, and there will be something paid to you each month, so that you won't have any anxiety."