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...rowed!” exclaimed Jane incredulously. “I like that.” “For a girl of county family, you are inexcusably vulgar, Jane. I don’t know what I said; but she... ... “My manners are as good as yours, and perhaps better,” retorted Jane. “My family is as good, anyhow.” “Children, children,” said Agatha, admonitorily... ...cuse a remark from a common man,” he ob- served, “your ladyship has a fine family of daughters.” “They are not my daughters,” said Miss Wilson, rather... ...putation for impiety and lose his practice. He believed that the gen- eral practitioner who attended the family, and had called him in when the case g... ...ty in having allowed Henrietta to die unawares. A moment later the general practitioner entered. Trefusis, having accompanied the consulting physician... ... hair on the pillow, the soft drapery, and the flowers placed there by the nurse to complete the artistic effect to which she had so confidently refer... ...rried child from an ill-timed attempt to pet it. T refusis pitied him. The nurse coughed and retired. “Have you been speaking to Mrs. Jansenius?” said... ...repeatedly alarmed her mother by broaching projects of becoming a hospital nurse, a public singer, or an actress. These projects led to some desultory...

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...ar marked “Only 6 1/2d.”—That catty box, on which was the epigraph “Strong Family Congo only 3s. 9d,” was from the country of Confutzee—that heap of d... .... I fling away all these things as the Toys of Boyhood. Life is the Soul’s Nursery. I am a Man, and pine for the Illimitable! Mark you me! Has the Mor... ...ene Aram:—”The burning desires I have known—the resplendent visions I have nursed—the sublime aspirings that have lifted me so often from sense and cl... ...he world—in all the cities of mankind there is One Home whither men of one family may resort. Over the entire world spreads a vast brotherhood, suffer... ...- happy Josephine by her former marriage with a French gentle- man of good family. Having a smack of the old blood in him, Eugene’s manners were much ... .... ‘No body claimed him here, and so we sent him back by the mail. An Irish nurse here gave him some supper, and he’s at Paddington by this time. Y es,... ... Reverend Bishop through the body, Smithereens apologized. He was the same practitioner who had rendered himself so celebrated in the memorable trial ...

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...e here. Although Henry Fielding lived in quite modern times, al- though by family and connections he was of a higher rank than most men of letters, an... ...eigh- teenth century—have not altogether sufficed to fill up the gaps. His family, said to have descended from a member of the great house of Hapsburg... ...h by all accounts supplied him with a faithful and excellent companion and nurse, and his children with a kind stepmother—little or nothing is again k... ...letters of his cousin, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the reminiscences or family tradi- tions of her grand-daughter, Lady Louisa Stuart. But Lady Mar... ...c theory. That there are resemblances to Scarron, to Le Sage, and to other practitioners of the Picaresque novel is certain; and it was inevitable tha... ...s well as longer, than his surgeon’s: in a word, she became absolutely his nurse; made his water-gruel, adminis- tered him his medicines; and, notwith... ...of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurser- ies of all vice and immorality. All the wicked fellows whom I remem...

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...even roofs of the Bou levard Saint Michel. The palace was grey and solid. Nurses, some in the white caps of their native province, others with the sa... ...would take this opportunity to disclose to us the mystery of his birth and family. I have a suspicion that, like the immortal Cagliostro, he was born ... ...e, he was granted the estates in Staffordshire which I still pos sess. My family has formed alliances with the most noble blood of England, and the M... ...orted. It certainly added author ity to what he said. He was proud of his family and never hesitated to tell the curious of his distinguished descent... ... know what powers he has. Have you ever heard those old legends with which nurses used to frighten our childhood, of men who could turn themselves int... ...be able to tell you all that you wish to know.’ ‘I came to you as a fellow practitioner,’ answered Arthur. ‘I am at St Luke’s Hospital.’ He pointed to... ... no sym pathy with London specialists, whose attitude towards the general practitioner he resented. He was pleased to sneer at their pretensions to o...

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...- 26 Sherwood Anderson other old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery. Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pocke... ...y took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man. “That is to confound you, you blathering old senti- mentalist,... ...gain. The tall dark girl came to see Doctor Reefy be- cause she was in the family way and had become 27 Winesburg, Ohio frightened. She was in that c... ... jaws were dripping. She had the dream three times, then she became in the family way to the one who said nothing at all but who in the moment of his ... ... become excited and a cry for doctors had gone up. All three of the active practitioners of the town had come quickly but had found the child dead. Fr... ... understand the man we will have to go back to an earlier day. The Bentley family had been in Northern Ohio for several generations before Jesse’s tim... ...d bitter, hurtful things. Later when her son David was born, she could not nurse him and did not know whether she wanted him or not. Some- times she s...

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... his own inspection. Lady Mary, the only daughter, was the youngest of the family, and she also had been with them on the Continent. They remained the... ...th of such a girl before she can achieve matrimony? It was the fate of the family that, with a world of ac- quaintance, they had not many friends. Fro... ..., who on such an occasion were bound to show themselves, as members of the family. With them and his two sons the Duke walked across to the graveyard,... ...lie on your lips;—with such a lie as that! You must have taken me for some nursemaid on whom you had condescended to cast your eye! It cannot be that... ...xecu- tive government may well fall into the inferior hands of less astute practitioners. It was admitted on both sides that there was no man like Sir... ...s not there. The Earl was ill at Brighton, and Lady Mabel had gone down to nurse him. The old woman who came to him in the hall told him that the Earl...

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...n silver or golden fish! It is curious, also, to reflect how they make one family, from the largest to the smallest. The least minnow that lies on the... ...reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. Shad are still taken in the basin of Concord River at... ...t. By such slow aggregation has mythol ogy grown from the first. The very nursery tales of this gen eration, were the nursery tales of primeval race... ... and the same translated suffice for all. All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.... ... al phabet of heaven and can count three? Do you know the number of God’s family? Can you put mysteries into words? Do you presume to fable of the in... ... T umultuous silence for all sound, 125 HenryDavidThoreau Ye distant nursery of rills, Monadnock and the Peterborough Hills;— Firm argumen... ...essional skill, resided in this town [Goffstown]. He was one of the oldest practitioners of medicine in the county. He was many years an active member...

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... the neces- saries and conveniencies of life, for himself, and such of his family or tribe as are either too old, or too young, or too infirm, to go a... ...t this rent should always be of the same value, it is of importance to the family in whose favour it is reserved, that it should not consist in a part... ...s be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first genera... ...nto it a strong mixture of superstition, folly, and delusion. Each ghostly practitioner, in order to render him- self more precious and sacred in the ... ...part of them, that melancholy and gloomy humour which is almost always the nurse of popular superstition and en- thusiasm. Public diversions have alwa...

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...e old Friend of Men has his own divorce case too; and at times, ‘his whole family but one’ under lock and key: he writes much about reforming and enfr... ...re Duports of deep scheme; Freteaus, Sabatiers, of incontinent tongue: all nursed more or less on the milk of the Contrat Social. Nay, for the whole B... ... that Behemoth of a States-Gen- eral. Worthy Doctor Guillotin, respectable practitioner in Paris, has drawn up his little ‘Plan of a Cahier of doleanc... ...hou, must and will be Himself, another than Thou. Divorce lawsuits, ‘whole family save one in prison, and three- score Lettres-de-Cachet’ for thy own ... ...ks his sword,’ making a vow,—which he might as well have kept. The ‘Triple Family’ is now therefore com- plete; the third erring brother, the Noblesse... ...eaded man will tread one other measure, under this nether Moon; speechless nurselings, infants as we call them, (Greek), crow in arms; and sprawl out ... ...hem, ‘these old Beguines;’ nay they will carry the little Dauphin, ‘having nursed a changeling, for some time, to leave in his stead!’ Besides, they a...