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A. BREAM OF NABONASSAR. 99
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" Sir, Your Most Dear Daughters." " I Pr...
her childish days , I knew it was Mary , by the deep blue eyes and dark lashes . ' "
She leant over a child ' s cot . Within lay a form so wasted and worn by long suffering-, and yet so patient and beautiful , that
although I closed my pained eyes for a moment at the sight , yet I looked again instantly , and whispered to myself , . " Of such is the
_OKang " O dom nurse of Heaven ! nurse *" ! " cried my poor daughter , wringing her had onl
hands Known , " that he is all no I better was , doing look how was wrong he suffers —that . Oh I was ! if making I him y
worse , in fact—but I little thought his dear foot would get so bad as this . "
The child moaned painfully , and releasing his little hand from the bedclothes " Some , drink placed ? it does on his darling mother's want arm . to Oh drink , how ? " wasted He shook it was his !
my headand as the golden curls moved over the pillow , I saw the little , wan limove . She bent her head to listenclose and closer
still , till her ps cheek touched his . The words were , faint and low , but I heard them .
went " Do on not with cry 'more , mamma , Charlie : "I heard will bear what the the pain doctor like a whispered man . " He ,
energy 6 It must come off , or he will die . ' Mamma , brave men have lost their limbs in battleand never uttered a moan ; mine is only my
, foot . I shall not be very lame . Say you'll be brave , mamma , and bear it well . "
Her face was white as ashes as she raised it . In questioning it agony is true she . looked Hurriedl at y the she nurse left , the whose room gaze . I in did rep not ly too follow plainl , I y knew said ,
she Three was going men to below pray , wise in her and own learned chamber , were . debating how they
could best break the dreadful truth to the mother , and meanwhile some angel had whispered the child that she could best bear it from
: his " li Nurs ps . e O , " wisdom said the of child innocenc , in a e voic , how e so dost strong thou and excel firm ! it startled
me , " call papa and the doctors ; tell them I am ready now . " " Hush ! lie stillmy dear . "
, . . How " No , e no agerl > noiv y he , before clasped mamma his hands comes , how again the . " little face flushed . he
Ibent Presentl over y the his dear father golden stood head by him , " the . "M doctors y boy say , " said — . " he He that , as tried in
to go on , but his voice was not so firm as the child's , - terrupted ; "I know him pap . aI heard them say it . Tell them I am ready . I
, , have told mamma of it . " And now I saw all that followed—the dreadful array , the
prethose pared dear table tiny , the hands little that form shook lifted onl on y a it little , the , the pale sw father elled t holding ortured
foot bared , and then—mercy covered my eyes , and led me away . ;
A. Bream Of Nabonassar. 99
A . BREAM OF NABONASSAR . 99
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/27/
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