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She was evidently on the verge of hysterics. Dorothy walked straight from the nursery to a sort of dressing-room which lay beyond. There was a small bed there, which was sometimes occupied by the under-nurse. A scared-looking, tired young woman was standing in this room. Dorothy gave her quick directions. "Get clean sheets, and make this bed up immediately," she said.
On a sloping lawn, before an old-fashioned, rambling house, Bobbie and Jerry were playing at nine-pins on a hot day in August. Under the shade of a cedar tree the under-nurse sat working; and "Aunt Lucy" an old lady with snow-white hair, crowned by a black mushroom hat was slowly pacing the gravel walk, digging out a weed here and there with a long spud she carried for the purpose.
Tabachetti, on the other hand, delighted in women; if they were young he made them comely and engaging, if they were old he gave them dignity and individual character, and the under-nurse is much more in accordance with Tabachetti's habitual mental attitude than with D'Enrico's or Giacomo Ferro's.
One fatal day I let them out, thinking they would come to no harm, as their parents were with them. As they did not return at dusk I sent E'eu, the under-nurse, to search for them. She came back and told me in a whisper that the father and mother pig were rooting up a sweet-potato patch belonging to the local chief. The piglets she had failed to discover.
Stephenson here will make you forget all that undesirable knowledge before long lost in a maze of Euclid, and Latin, and Greek, and trigonometry, and things!" "I say!" gasped Norah. "Well, you may," grinned the doctor. "I foresee lively times for you and your tutor in the paths of learning, young lady. First of all, however, you'll have to be under-nurse to our friend the patient, with Mrs.
There," after a little more baby-worship, "you may take her Emma." "Is that the under-nurse?" asked Jenny, rather surprised by her juvenility. "The sole one.
Lady Helena left her and ascended to the night nursery. She had to pass the room where the tragedy had been enacted. She shivered as she went by. She found the little heir of Catheron Royals asleep in his crib, guarded by the under-nurse head-nurse now, vice Mrs. Pool cashiered.
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