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Head-nurse, stopped in her flow of fine words, sniffed contemptuously. "Danger! with me to guard him? No! 'Tis that the High-in-Pomp hath cut his first real back tooth! He can eat meat! He has come to man's estate! He is no longer dependent upon milk diet."
"Cats," said poor Head-nurse, as she sat opposite Foster-mother, grinding for all they were worth at a stone hand-mill in order to gain enough to keep Bija from starving, "are of all God's creatures the most contented; and so little pleases them. Hark! to Down how she purrs, just because she has found us poor miserable women." "Allah!" replied Foster-mother more cheerfully.
This had been agreed upon, and here they were! Little Akbar, who was playing at cat's cradle with his sister, looked up eagerly. "Was Grand-dad ever in the snow? 'Cos if he was, he's quite sure to help us, for he ate all our sweeties, didn't he, Bija?" The little girl shook her head and put her finger to her lip, in warning to him not to give away their secret; but Head-nurse was sharp.
What is it?" called an anxious voice from behind the curtain which divided the tent in two. "What?" echoed Head-nurse in high glee.
But it was full of the most delicious dainties, including a bowl of sweet milk made with almonds and honey and rice meal for Baby Akbar. Head-nurse, however, would not let him eat it. She was always afraid of the little lad being poisoned, so Meroo always cooked with his own hands everything the child ate.
Horse-chestnut is the only mount thou art fit for. Roy! carry that foolish umbrella behind." "In front the emblems are ever carried in front," protested Head-nurse feebly. "I said behind," was all the answer she got, and behind it went while they toiled up and up.
It was warm and nice; just the very place for a kitten's first look at the world, and there were no troublesome people about; not but what she was anxious to show her kitten to Baby Akbar. But who knew if horrid Head-nurse might not try to catch it? But Head-nurse was asleep. Down whisked her tail, disappeared through the archway, and reappeared again gingerly, carrying the kitten in her mouth.
They were all as jolly as could be afterward, though the heat of the fire and their heavy supper made them sleepy; so Head-nurse, declaring it was far too cold in the inner room, dragged her bed and Foster-mother's close to the fire, the others retired to the outer room, and before long they were all snoring away quite happily. For if the supper had not truly been poisoned, it had been drugged.
"It doesn't seem to me that I should mind it much," said the Baron. The Head-nurse looked at his grim old face through the peep-holes in her bonnet-crown, and thought to herself that if she were no prettier than he, she should not mind much either, but she said nothing. Suddenly there was a knock at the tower-door.
"Queer affair. Well, I'll think about it. If we do operate, I'll want you " The surgeon was interrupted by a nurse who told him there was a man who wanted to see Peter Annersley: that the man was insistent. The head-nurse was having supper, and should the caller be allowed in after visiting hours? "Send him in," said the surgeon, and he stepped into the superintendent's office.
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