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Patience Hart's First Experience in Service
Patience Hart's First Experience in Service Author:Mary Sewell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: Jarrold Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select ... more »from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER III. Dear Mother, You say in your last letter, that yon wish to hear from me very often, but that I must not expect a reply to all my letters; now this, I think, is rather hard, for I am sure I want to hear from you, quite as much as you want to hear from me; and if you cannot find time to write yourself, I think Mary could; and writing letters would improve her a great deal more than writing only copies. I do not believe that I should have written half so fast and easily as I do now, if you had not made me write such long letters to Mark; be sure, when you hear from him, that you let me know. I heard my master say the other day, when he laid down the newspaper, that there was terrible work going on in India. As he said the words, I felt the colour all go out of my cheeks, and I had such a bad feeling about my heart; but I hope it is all right with him, poor fellow. Well, now I must tell you something about the children here -- "theyoung ladies and gentlemen," we call them. I light the nursery fire every morning, and do up the room, and get the baths ready, and when I have changed my frock and put on a clean apron, I help Judith to dress them. There are four of them -- two girls and two boys. Miss Rose is the eldest, and Master Alfred is the youngest; he is only nine months old; they are the sweetest little dears I ever saw. I love them all -- but I like Miss Rose and Master Gerald the best; he has such a spirit, but he is so very affectionate. The first morning that I came to help in the nursery, he said to me, "You shall not dress me." " Oh! yes, Master Gerald," ...« less