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Updated: May 10, 2025
When school-time was over and the rain was still coming down, they would run away to their dolls, who, poor things, were always ill, so that Florence might have the pleasure of curing them. And though before Cap's accident she had never heard of a compress, she could make nice food for them at the nursery fire, and bandage their broken arms and legs while Parthy held the wounded limb steady.
"How many children have you?" I inquired. She laughed and blushed, old woman though she was; and pride and deep delight and love shone in her large, clear, gray eyes. "I've fourteen darlins, thank God for ivery wan of thim! And it's a purrty parthy they are!" "Fourteen!" I exclaimed, "how lovely!" I stopped short and blushed. My heart had spoken. "But how " I stopped again.
Two brothers named Blansaart, and one Parthy, having procured a considerable sum of money from the leading conspirators, repaired to The Hague, as they asserted, for the purpose of betraying the plot; but they were forestalled in this purpose: four of the sailors had gone out to Ryswyk the preceding evening, and laid the whole of the project, together with the wages of their intended crime, before the prince; who, it would appear, then occupied the ancient chateau, which no longer exists at Ryswyk.
Nightingale, seems to have been fond of giving his family place-names, for Florence's sister, about a year older than herself, had the old title of Naples tacked on to 'Frances, and in after life was always spoken of as 'Parthy' or 'Parthenope. By and by a young cousin of these little girls would be named 'Athena, after the town Athens, and then the fashion grew, and I have heard of twins called 'Inkerman' and 'Balaclava, and of an 'Elsinora, while we all know several 'Almas, and may even have met a lady who bears the name of the highest mountain in the world of course you can all guess what that is?
They were fond of poetry, and no doubt some of the earliest poems of young Mr. Tennyson were among their favourites, as well as 'Lycidas' and the songs of the cavaliers. Parthy was a better artist and a cleverer musician than Florence, though she could sing and sketch; but both were good needlewomen, and could make samplers as well as do fine work and embroidery.
The latter laughed heartily and answered: "Me wife wuz born far enough away from dear ould Ireland. Oi'll tell ye how it wuz. Many years ago a parthy of immygrants left county Kerry for Nassau, New Providence oisland. Their ship wuz driven far out av her way in a sthorm an' wrecked on a small oisland in Flamingo Bay.
Of course Parthy and Florence knew all about him, and their greatest treat was a visit to his house, where they could see in the kitchen a trap-door leading to a large secret chamber, in which a conspirator might live for weeks without being found out.
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