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And it was Mary, the busy housekeeper, who, on her busiest day, drove to the station to meet Guthrie Carey and the baby, and the baby's cheap and temporary child-nurse. Mary, though she was not Deb, was too sweet and good for words. She put the little hired girl on the front seat with the groom, and sat in the body of the waggonette to talk to Guthrie and to take care of his child.
The girl was a mite of a thing, prematurely grave, serious, pretty, and she led a boy just old enough to toddle. The boy was a feeble, frail, ill-nourished, dirty young urchin, who fell asleep as soon as his head touched her arm. His child-nurse, having made him comfortable, gave a sigh of relief, and looked up and down the car with a radiant smile of content. Presto, change!
'Oh, dear Mabel, I am so sorry for you, said the affectionate child-nurse; 'I wish I could do anything to give you relief from your pains.
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