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Updated: May 29, 2025
Underwood herself had said something that showed her to contemplate Wilmet's remaining at school. 'You must, said Felix decidedly. 'Why, you might as well turn nursery-girl at once. 'I should like it, said Wilmet. 'I shall be miserable at school always thinking something is going wrong. And Cherry can never bear with the babies! Oh! please don't tell me I must.
"You remember, of course, that it was her key-basket?" said Miss Waddington, with a smile that made M'Gabbery clench his walking-stick in his hand. "Perfectly; because she always kept her halfpence there also. Well, there was a nursery-girl who used to be about me in those days.
If mere common sense discovers so many subjects, what number may not learning and wisdom discover when their attention shall be turned in this direction? The "nursery-girl" topic might come up again, and be considered in its moral and intellectual aspects. Some mothers see their small children only once or twice a day, while the nurse is with them constantly.
At dinner Christabel forbade the subject to be mentioned, not only to hinder quarrelsome speeches, but to prevent the loss being talked of among the servants; since she feared that one of them must have committed the theft, and though anxious not to put it into the children's heads, suspected Rhoda, the little nursery-girl, who was quite a child, and had not long been in the house.
Another day there was a nursery-girl there with a baby that cried; on another, still more distractingly, a fashionable young French bride who went kodaking round while her husband talked with an archaeological official, evidently Spanish.
A nursery-girl was trying to wrap up the younger children in all sorts of wrong things, upside down. "Take these children right over to my house," said Mrs. Hobart. "Barbara Holabird! Come up here!" "I don't know what to do first," said Mrs. Marchbanks, excitedly. "Mr. Marchbanks has taken away his papers; but there's all the silver and the pictures and everything!
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