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The old nurse's story

 
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dc.contributor.author Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
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dc.date.created 1852
dc.identifier ota:3108
dc.identifier.citation http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3108
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dc.description.abstract First edition published in 1852.
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dc.subject.lcsh Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century
dc.subject.lcsh Short stories -- Great Britain -- 19th century
dc.title The old nurse's story
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The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell [The Old Nurse's Story] You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grand-father was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. I was just a girl in the village school, when, one day, your grandmother came in to ask the mistress if there was any scholar there who would do for a nurse-maid; and mighty proud I was, I can tell ye, when the mistress called me up, and spoke to my being a good girl at my needle, and a steady, honest girl, and one whose parents were very respectable, though they might be poor I thoughtI should like nothing better than to serve the pretty, young lady, who was blushing as deep as I was, as she spoke of the coming baby, and what I should have to do with it. However, I see you don't care so much for this part of my story, as for what you think is to come, so I'll tell you at once. I was engaged and settled at the parsonage before Miss Rosamond (th . . .
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