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Updated: May 15, 2025
None the less the village ways were yielding, insensibly, little by little; and the Miss Halls were after all building better than they knew. The vicar, however, always had to take the chair at Miss Hall's meetings, and he was secretly sick and tired of babies, their weights, their foods, their feeding-bottles, and everything concerned with them.
She is provided with a round of prosaic and extremely material duties, and her mind is carefully kept within these bounds by details of soap and feeding-bottles, which do not offer scope for any flight of imagination. It would be far better to place a bundle of rags in the arms of a little girl, and to tell her to imagine it to be a baby.
Septimus said, holding up the note-book: "I was just trying to work out the problem whether a boy's expenses from the time he begins feeding-bottles to the time he leaves the University increases by arithmetical or geometrical progression." Sypher laughed. "It depends, doesn't it, on his taste for luxuries?" "This one is going to be extravagant, I'm afraid," said Septimus.
The highest officials did not think it beneath them to buy feeding-bottles and forward them on by express messenger. They sent her gifts of books, magazines, and papers one forwarded The Times for years and at Christmas there would come plum puddings, crackers, and sweets.
But you ?" "Getting on splendidly. I say, Peggy, what kind of people are the Pullingers who have taken Denby Hall?" "They're all right, I believe. He's something in the Government Controller of Feeding-bottles I don't know. But, oh, Doggie, what an ass you were to sell the place up!" "I wasn't." "You were." Doggie laughed.
As delights are doubled when shared with those we care for, I determined to take Peter with me, so I packed him up in a specially constructed travelling saloon of his own, to wit, a flannel-lined basket containing all the necessary comforts for the journey, such as air-holes and feeding-bottles, and off we started in the highest of spirits.
Fed on sour rye bread and cabbage- or mushroom-water, working as much as the men, having less sleep, keeping more religious fasts, the peasant-women are only exceptionally capable of rearing their children by the natural process."... "I have seen children not a year old left for twenty-four hours entirely alone, and in order that they should not die of hunger feeding-bottles were attached to their hands and feet."
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