woman-in-waiting

Updated: April 30, 2025

I must have died had not the happy thought come to the woman-in-waiting to procure Catharine, the wife of the gardener, Guillaume Carpentier, to be my nurse; and it is to her care, to her rubbings, and above all to her good milk, that I owe the capability to amuse you, my dear girls and friends, with the account of my life that life whose continuance I truly owe to my mother Catharine.

George Washington Cable - Strange True Stories of Louisiana