The Walcott Twins

The Walcott Twins

The Mistress of the house lay among her pillows, her brows drawn into the nearest semblance of a frown that her gentle countenance could assume. Nursebearing a tiny, moving bundle of muslin and flanneland the father were at the bedside. The father's forehead wore an unmistakable frown. It was evident that something displeased him, but who would have dreamed that it was the gurgling mite in the flannel blanket? Yet he pointed in that direction as he said, "Take him away!" repeated the father, still frowning. "He may be the best baby in the worlda future President of the United States, [6]even,but he can't stay in this room another minute. Do you understand?" Nurse thought the father a great bear. Of course she could not tell him so, but she could and she did show him that an imported English nurse chooses her own rate of speed. She moved slowly toward the door, holding her head with its imposing white cap well up in the air, and looking at Baby as though he were a Crown Prince, instead of the youngest nursling in an American flock of five. While the door was open for nurse and her precious burden to pass through, sounds of boisterous mirth floated into the quiet chamber. It was only the twins, Gay and May, and little NedAlice was in the countryat play in the nursery, but one would have said that half the children in New York city were shouting together. The invalid tried to stifle a sigh which did not escape the father's ear. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 49060
Author: Lovell, Lucile
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Waugh, Ida, -1919