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tell him--I cannot breathe as soon as through the face of a trained nanny some more!
I tell him, gentleman I am ill to death not to be anything but a type. I want
seem _myself_! I want to see that Life could do to a foolish face
like mine--if ever found an opportunity! When the other women are crying, I want
the fun to cry! When the other women seem death of fear, I want the fun
seem dead of fear!" Hysterically again with bad-tempered emphasis
she started to repeat: "I won't be a nanny! I tell him, I don't want! ME
_wo not!"
"Do you beg what so suddenly brought her to this extraordinary decision?"
derided the Senior Surgeon.
"A letter from my father, gentleman", she confided more quietly. "A letter
on the dogs."
"Dogs?" whistled the Senior Surgeon.
"Yes, gentleman", says the Nanny of Lino Bianca. A trifle speculatively for a
instant she threw again back a look to the face of the Superintendent and then to
the Senior Surgeon. "Yes, gentleman", she repeated with increasing him
trust. "Above in Nova Scotland my father raises hunting-dogs. Oh, no
kind of special desire, gentleman" that she has hastened in every honesty to explain. "Only
dogs, You dogs,--cursor know,--only mixed with curly tails,--and
hairy-dressed again hounds,--and dappled spaniel and that whole kind of
thing,--only bastard, you know, but very intelligent; and people, gentleman, come
from the principle to the end from Boston to buy dogs of him, and once a man came way from
London to learn the secret of his/her training."
"Well, what is the secret of his/her training?" sets questions to the Senior Surgeon
with the anxious and sudden interest of a sportsman. "I should think that it is able
is enough hard", he admitted, "in a mixed gang as that to decide
only what particular dog had been all right to that particular game!"
"Yes, that is alone, gentleman" it removed the Nanny of Lino Bianca. "A dog, of
course, will pursue only anything that runs,--that dog,--but when a dog
really starts to _care_ for what he is pursuing him--acts! That is chasing!
Father doesn't calculate, he says, on to train a dog on anything him