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Miss Quiney. My poor Ruth. Mrs. Strongtharm. Eh? The first, o' course. . . . But a long labour's often the best. Miss Quiney. There has not been a sound for hours. Mrs. Strongtharm. She's brave. They say, too, that a man-child, if he's a real strong one, will wait for daybreak; but that's old women's notions, I shouldn't wonder. Miss Quiney. A man-child? You think it will be? Mrs. Strongtharm.
Look at this one, now runnin' in and out so that the eye can't hardly follow it; and all for my lord's dressing-room! Cost a hundred pound, I shouldn't wonder. Mrs. Strongtharm. T'cht! Mrs. Josselin. He must be amazing fond of her. Fancy, my Ruth! . . . It's a pity he's not home, to take the child. Mrs. Strongtharm. Men at these times are best out o' the way. Mrs. Josselin.
But it is a secret, and you are not to tell Mr. Strongtharm." "Oh!" said Mrs. Strongtharm. "Him!" "But you ought to make some difference," whispered the good woman next morning, after breakfast, as she was preparing to slip away to the village. "Be it but a flower in your bodice. But we've no garden, and the season's late." Ruth took her kiss of benediction.
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