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Wages are much higher on the gold fields than in Bangalore head butlers, 16 rupees; ayahs, 12 to 14 rupees; chokras, 10 to 11 rupees; cooks, 11 to 14 rupees; and gardeners, 10 to 16 rupees a month. Many of them leave domestic service and take work in the mines, where they get higher wages very often."

His mother had left the children entirely to the care of ayahs, he himself had been far too occupied with his regimental duties to be able to superintend their training, while Abijah's hands had been too full with the management of the house, which entirely devolved upon her, and with the constant attention demanded by Mrs. Sankey, to give them any close superintendence.

>From that day Adam forswore the society of ayahs and small native girls as much as a small boy can, confining himself to Imam Din and his friends of the police. The Naik, Juma's husband, had been presuming not a little on his position, and when Adam's favour was withdrawn from his wife he judged it best to apply for a transfer to another post.

Children in India, especially European children, seldom go to sleep without being subjected to some such influence, either by the ayahs or the attendant bearers; and our military friend says, that he has himself repeatedly, in a few seconds, been the means of tranquillising a fractious, teething child, and throwing it into a profound sleep by the mere exercise of the will, quite ignorant that he was thus using, though in one of its simplest forms, a power at which he laughed heartily when displayed around him in some of its more hidden ramifications.

I told him what was necessary, and no more, desiring him to go to suite 14a without delay and also without arousing unnecessary attention. "By the way," I said, "have you Oriental guests with you, at the moment?" "No, monsieur," he assured me. "Not a certain Oriental lady?" I persisted. M. Samarkan slowly shook his head. "Possibly monsieur has seen one of the ayahs?

The natural result was, that the ayahs ceased to trouble her, and found it easier to allow the children to do as they chose, and to give way quietly to Ned's outbursts of passion. Captain Sankey knew nothing of all this.

A second time Mrs. Delville bent over the child. Mrs. Hauksbee, her face still hidden, sobbed and shivered. One of the ayahs staggered sleepily into the room, yawning: 'Doctor Sahib come. Mrs. Delville turned her head. 'You're only just in time, she said. 'It was chokin' her when I came, an' I've burnt it. 'There was no sign of the membrane getting to the air-passages after the last steaming.

You never said you'd been there." Roy started and went hot all over. "Well, I have just on a visit. And she's not an ayah. She's my Mummy!" Joe Bradley opened his mouth as well as his eyes, which made him look plainer than ever. "Golly! what a tale! White people don't have ayahs for Mothers not in my India. I s'pose your Pater married her out there?" "He didn't. And I tell you she's not an ayah."

She seized her flannel apron from the bed where she had placed it ready before she went out, and with one last lingering look at herself went swiftly to her new duties. Tea passed peacefully enough, though Fay asked embarrassing questions, such as "Why you wear suts a funny hat?" "Because I'm an ayah," Meg answered quickly. "Ayahs don't wear zose kind of hats."

Look at the bloom on their hair, blue as the light on raven's wing, and the flour on their faces, hanging thick on their black eyebrows. I think they must have a little of the Indian in them. There's a far-away kinship in the expression of the Ayahs on board and the Spaniards on shore, a queer penetrating look, and kindly.