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had taken all the delicious tu show of

summer, to move him to a few pitiful smiles He had none of the healthy

infant's passion and lusty grasp of life; he seemed to touch it as he had

touched his one

fastidious sense of its illusion What little interest he had ever taken

in the thing declined perceptibly with auturossed with the revolutions taking place in his sad little body to

carethat went on outside it

Hitherto he had not had to suffer frolect of servants He was so

delicate froly advised to keep

on the trained nurse till he was a year old But Mrs Nevill Tyson knew

better than that For some reason she had taken a dislike to her trained

nurse; perhaps she was a little bit afraid of the professional severity

which had so often held in check her fits of hysterical passion Aided by

Mrs Wilcox and her own intuitions, after rejecting a dozen candidates on

the ground of youth and frivolity, she chose a woman with calm blue eyes

and a ed at an enormous

salary, had absolute authority in the nursery And if it had been

possible to entertain a doubt as to this excellent woman's worth, the

fact that she had kept the Tyson baby alive so long was sufficient

testimonial to her capabilities