Capitolo 34
I will lend my action to the God giving him/it to the boys." And,
whipping on his/her coffee-pot and plate of toast, she cheered the
eyes and stomachs of two or three dissatisfied heroes, serving
them with a liberal hand; and I don't have the slightest doubt that,
having thrown his/her bread on the waters, he/she returned buttered, as
another great-hearted the old lady was accustomed to say.
Then it came to the visit in the evening of the doctor; the administration of
medicines; feverish faces that wash; fallen beds that smooth;
you hurt that bathe; lullabies that sing; and preparations for the
night. Within eleven, the last job of love was done,; the last "good
night" spoken; and, if some needed a reward for the job of that day,
they certainly received him/it to them, in the silent eloquence of those you crave
lines of faces, showing pale and peaceful in the rooms shaded as
we ended them to us, it followed from thankful looks that illuminated us to
bed, where he/she remains, the more dessert, made our pillows soft, while night
and Nature happened, full that the great house of the pain with
the healthy miracles of Sleep and his/her brother of diviner, Death.
I CAPITULATE IV: A NIGHT.
Liking the evening side of nature, I was promoted soon
the place of evening nanny, with every facility to satisfy in mine
favorite pastime of "owling." My colleague, a widow black-dagli eyes,
assuages me to dawn, us two care of taking of the custody, among us,
as the immortal Sairy and Betsey, "turn and turn around." ME
you usually find my boys in the jolliest you affirm of their mind
condition allowed; for him a known fact was that Nanny Periwinkle
objected to color blue devils, and it entertained a belief that he who
laughed the most greater part it was surer than recovery. To the beginning of mine
kingdom, heaps of refusals and dismals prevailed; the nannies seemed anxious and
tired, the men dark or sad; and a general "Listen!-from-the-
grave-a-sorry-sound" style of conversation seemed to be the
way: a state of things that you/they provoked one coming from a happy,