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Updated: May 29, 2025
Her mamma used to begin by saying, "My dear-r-Ramelia, you must not be so wasteful," and she used to end by saying, "The dear child has positively no appetite;" which seemed to be a good reason for not wasting any more food upon her; but with Amelia's mamma it only meant that she might try a little cutlet and tomato sauce when she had half finished her roast beef, and that most of the cutlet and all the mashed potato might be exchanged for plum tart and custard; and that when she had spooned up the custard and played with the paste, and put the plum stones on the tablecloth, she might be tempted with a little Stilton cheese and celery, and exchange that for anything that caught her fancy in the dessert dishes.
Then her mamma would exclaim, "Oh, dear-r-r-r, oh, dear-r-Ramelia" and the lady of the house would try to look as if it did not matter, and when Amelia and her mother departed, would pick up the bits, and pour out her complaints to her lady friends, most of whom had suffered many such damages at the hands of this "very observing child."
Don't talk to Mamma, but peel me an orange, please. Mr. Brown! I'm playing with your finger-glass." And when the finger-glass full of cold water had been upset on to Mr. Brown's shirt-front, Amelia's mamma would cry "Oh dear, oh dear-r-Ramelia!" and carry her off with the ladies to the drawing-room.
"Only the grasshoppers, my dear," said Papa. "Let us get the poor child home." The stock moaned again, and the mother said, "Oh dear! oh dear-r-Ramelia!" and followed in tears.
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