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They had many conferences together, especially after the coming and going of Hiram. “There is a larger tunny in the sea than yet has entered the meshes,” confessed the fishmonger, sorely puzzled, after much vain talk. But Hermione was caring for none of these things. Her hands were busy with the swaddling clothes.
She then avers that, after the example of Cato, who wished to see how the nurse changed the swaddling bands of the infant Pompey, she would never leave to others the least of the services required in shaping the susceptible minds and tender bodies of these little creatures whose education begins in the cradle.
"Because I have put myself into a groove, and ground myself into a mould, and clipped and pared and pinched myself all round, very ineffectually, as I fear, to fit myself for this thing. You have lived as free as air. You have disdained, and though I may have grumbled I have still been proud to see you disdain, to wrap yourself in the swaddling bandages of Court life.
Whence arises this unreasonable custom of swaddling children? From an unnatural custom. Since the time when mothers, despising their first duty, no longer wish to nurse their own children at the breast, it has been necessary to intrust the little ones to hired women.
The real service of the "higher education," the freedom to take a part in whatever interests or stimulates her lies in the fact that it fits her intellectually to be a companion worthy of a child. She should know that unless she does this thing for him he goes forth with his mind still in swaddling clothes, with the chances that it will not be released until relentless life tears off the bands.
Sensation does not count for so much in our first years as afterwards; something of the swaddling numbness of infancy clings about us; we see and touch and hear through a sort of golden mist.
His wine was for him, his oil was for him, his beast for him; his penny, his care, and his swaddling bands for him; for alas! wretch, he had most need; Luke x. 30-35.
The family, especially Billy Boy's widow, were wrapped in black calico swaddling garments, and looked more stiff than ever, but still smiling. The remains were in cigar boxes, all but Billy's wig and eyes which Beth had thoughtfully saved for another doll. "I am sorry I have to preach this sad sermon," said Nan. "Might have let me, then," said a voice from the congregation.
But, there! these preparatory digressions are the idle digressions and fastidious commentaries which certain unbelievers compel a man to wind about a tale, swaddling clothes about an infant when it should run about stark naked. May the great devil give them a clyster with his red-hot three-pronged fork. I am going on with my story now without further circumlocution.
Jane noticed, however, that her face, usually prettily flushed with pink, was now deadly white, and also that the child's eyes shifted in a peculiarly nervous manner. "It's lovely of you, Sally, and we'll just set a good example while Miss Gifford is searching for that miscreant fire. Come along and get the swaddling clothes for these babes.
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