The bell is rung and somebody sent to tell nurse to bring baby down.
The brat is calmed at last, and would no doubt remain quiet enough, only some mischievous busybody points you out again with "Who's this, baby?" and the intelligent child, recognizing you, howls louder than ever.
She has been that built up and happy, longing for that
baby, and planning for it.
She swore a dozen times that she would not leave the Kincaid without her
baby, and yet she remained clothed long past her usual hour for retiring, and her blankets were neatly rolled and bound with stout cord, when about midnight there came a stealthy scratching upon the panels of her door.
"Perhaps I can go up there and take care of the
baby?" suggested Rebecca.
While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing the
baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words:--
'I won't,' said the inexhaustible
baby, '--allow--you--to--make-- game--of--my--venerable--Ma.' At each division administering a soft facer with one of the speckled fists.
The
baby was lying with its head thrown back, stiffening itself in the nurse's arms, and would not take the plump breast offered it; and it never ceased screaming in spite of the double hushing of the wet-nurse and the other nurse, who was bending over her.
He expressed his willingness to listen, and she told the story of the
baby's illness and the extemporized ordinance.
Give it me back, Mum," said Flopson; "and Miss Jane, come and dance to
baby, do!"
"That's when you give a woman a sum down to look after a
baby. But when you're going to pay so much a week it's to their interest to look after it well."
'I ne--ver saw such a
baby,' said Mr Lumbey, the doctor.
As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmonde drove over to L'Abri to see Desiree and the
baby.
At last Hetty whispered, "I did do it, Dinah...I buried it in the wood...the little
baby...and it cried...I heard it cry...ever such a way off...all night...and I went back because it cried."
When it thunders, the April
baby says, "There's lieber Gott scolding those angels again." And once, when there was a storm in the night, she complained loudly, and wanted to know why lieber Gott didn't do the scolding in the daytime, as she had been so tight asleep.
