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'Hasn't her a nice face?' 14
She was sitting in the dame's old-fashioned armchair, in the window of the little room; the bright summer sunshine streaming in behind her 31
Then there burst upon the view a wonderful surprise 74
Miss Bess and Master Francis were talking eagerly with old Prideaux 82
'Poor F'ancie,' she said pitifully. 'So tired, Baby wants to kiss thoo' 113
'Auntie!' he said, smiling a very little; 'how pretty you look!' 129
Sir Hulbert, holding Master Francis with one arm and the side of the ladder with the other, followed 179
NURSE HEATHERDALE'S STORY
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
'Dear me,' thought I to myself, 'I could almost make a story out of those young ladies and gentleman, though I've only seen them for a minute, or two at the most.'
For I was very fond of children even then, and knew a good deal about their ways, though not so much--no, nor nothing like--what I do now! But I was in rather a dreamy sort of humour. I had just left my first place,--that of nursery-maid with the family where my mother had been before me, and where I had stayed on older than I should have done by rights, because of thinking I was going to be married. And six months before, my poor Charles had died suddenly, or so at least it had seemed to us all. For he caught cold, and it went to his chest, and he was gone in a fortnight. The doctor said for all he looked strong, he was really sadly delicate, and it was bound to be sooner or later. It may have been true, leastways the doctor meant to comfort me by saying so, though I don't know that I found much comfort in the thought. Not so much anyhow as in mother's simple words that it was God's will, and so it must be right. And in thinking how happy we had been. Never a word or a coldness all the four years we were plighted. But it was hard to bear, and it changed all my life for me. I never could bring myself to think of another.
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