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You don't mean to say you have dared to bring the infant here, Daisy?" "No, no. I ran away with her on to the moors. I was so frightened, for I thought baby had died. Then Maggie came, and she saved her life, and she was brought home again." "That's a good thing; but I can't see why you are troubling me with this story." "Yesterday morning I gave baby back to Dr. Maybright.
No, you shan't touch her." "I must! Give her to me this moment. There is Dr. Maybright. Give me baby this moment. I must, I will, have her!" She almost snatched the little creature out of Nurse's astonished arms, and as the carriage drew up at the entrance steps sprang out, and put the baby into Dr. Maybright's arms. "There!" she said; "I took her away, but I give her back.
Maybright, she coolly waited in an adjoining room, and when the good woman returned, once more placed herself within earshot. No Maybright would dream of eavesdropping, but Flower's upbringing had been decidedly lax with regard to this and other matters. In full possession, therefore, of the facts of the catastrophe which was to overpower poor little Fly and injure Dr.
She gathered up her skirts, and sped down the path, and Polly gave a sigh of real relief. That night, which was long remembered in the annals of the Maybright family as one of the dreariest and most terrible they had ever passed through, came to an end at last. With the early dawn Polly was brought home, and about the same time Nurse and Maggie reappeared with baby on the scene.
It was about eleven o'clock that night when Dr. Maybright entered the drawing-room. He was a tall man with a slight stoop, and his eyes looked somewhat short-sighted. To-night, however, he walked in quickly, holding himself erect. His eyes, too, had lost their peculiar expression of nearness of vision, and Mrs. Cameron knew at once that she was in for a bad time.
It took a great deal to frighten Polly Maybright; no discipline, no hard words, no punishments, had ever been able to induce the smallest sensation of fear in her breast. As to the moor, she had been brought up on it; she had drank in its air, and felt its kindly breath on her cheeks from her earliest days. The moors were to Polly like dear, valued, but somewhat stern, friends.
I never thought that Polly's experience would upset the household economy in so marked a manner. I am really annoyed, for I certainly gave her leave to housekeep for a week." "It isn't as I minds youth, Dr. Maybright," continued Mrs. Power.
"You mean that you think I would tell her about Dr. Maybright?" "Perhaps you would, Miss; you're none too sensible." Flower was too crushed even to reply to this uncomplimentary speech. After a pause, she said: "I'm not going to Polly. I'm going away. Maggie, is it true that the that Dr. Maybright is very ill?" "Yes, Miss, the Doctor's despert bad."
"My dear child, I have not an idea what you are talking about. Who are Paul and Virginia have I not a large enough family without taking in the inhabitants of a desert island? There, I can't wait to hear explanations now; that is my patients' bell run away, my dear, run away." Dr. Maybright always saw his poorer patients gratis on Saturday morning from ten to twelve.
Maybright," she said, dropping a curtsey, and twisting a corner of her large white apron round with one formidable red hand. "It's to give notice. This day month, please, Doctor, and, though I says it as shouldn't, you won't get no one else to jelly your soups, nor feather your potatoes, nor puff your pastry, as Jane Power has done. But there's limits, Dr.
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