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Updated: May 26, 2025
He, however, was disposed to continue being humorous, and frequently cracked little jokes aloud to himself. "Here's the butcher's shop," he explained, pointing to an array of carcasses; "hats off! We're in the presence of death." And, when he had purchased his sausages, he stepped gaily out of the place, saying: "Come along, Rupert, my boy. Home to tea! Trip along at Nursie's side."
Vava was very pleased at this praise; but, remembering nursie's lecture on not thinking too much of herself, she replied, 'I can't do things by halves, I suppose because I have too much energy. I wish sometimes I did not go at things so hard. I don't take time to think, and so I make a lot of mistakes.
"I'm making a little poem, now," she confided at last. "It's about you and me. It's a sort of a little prayer." Very, very softly she began to repeat. Now I sit me down to nap All curled up in a Nursie's lap, If she should die before I wake Abruptly she stopped and stared up suspiciously into the White Linen Nurse's eyes.
'You said you had a bad presentiment about something having gone wrong, and nursie's coming is not wrong at all; it has put things right, persisted Vava. 'Oh well, I haven't got any presentiment now, so it's all right, declared Eva. 'And presentiments are very foolish things, said Stella rather primly. The breakfast was a very good one. Mrs.
Then nursie's heart gave way altogether, and she began to cry. At the sound of her first sob the princess turned again, and held her face to kiss her as usual. But the nurse had her handkerchief to her eyes, and did not see the movement. 'Nursie, said the princess, 'why won't you believe me? 'Because I can't believe you, said the nurse, getting angry again.
With excessive deliberateness she went back to the first line of her poem and began all over again, Now I sit me down to nap, All curled up in a Nursie's lap, If she should die before I wake, Give her give her ten cents for Jesus' sake! "Why that's a a cunning little prayer," yawned the White Linen Nurse. Most certainly of course she would have smiled if the yawn hadn't caught her first.
Vava tried on the stockings, which she declared fitted, as nursie's knitted stockings always did. But next another unpleasant event took place, making this week the 'baddest and maddest' Vava had ever known; and to understand it the events of the day before at the City school must be related.
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