Fresh leaves and green pastures . fproper drainage, a good water-supply, bathsand wash-houses, and the hundred and one thingswe deemed necessary to social salvation! To obtain money for some of these schemeswe got up a bazaar. Papa sent me down thesketch of Pamela, which sold for £12 12s., andtook him, I expect, about as many minutes to all was in vain: we were beaten, and theparty of no progress came in in triumph, asI remarked before, and things remained in thebad old state until long after we had left thetown. But 1874 was a bad year for me. My dearestfriend died of typhoid fever in
Fresh leaves and green pastures . fproper drainage, a good water-supply, bathsand wash-houses, and the hundred and one thingswe deemed necessary to social salvation! To obtain money for some of these schemeswe got up a bazaar. Papa sent me down thesketch of Pamela, which sold for £12 12s., andtook him, I expect, about as many minutes to all was in vain: we were beaten, and theparty of no progress came in in triumph, asI remarked before, and things remained in thebad old state until long after we had left thetown. But 1874 was a bad year for me. My dearestfriend died of typhoid fever in October andwhen my second son was born in December, mydear old nurse died after a few hours illness, andlife seemed so. black that it really never becamequite as joyous again ! She was in my roomat twelve, and I told her I had seen in the looking-glass the temporary nurse drinking brandy outof the bottle. She said she would take care itdid not happen again. At six she was dead,her last act being to put out her hand to prevent248. PAMELA. FINDING THE GENERAL the cot in which one of the children slept to bemoved. Her first and last idea was duty, andshe died: oh, gallant soul! as she had lived,in harness. Just a few words about her before I close this chapter and go on to more of our country life. She had been married, but as she always said Men were a pore lot, I fancy her venture had been a bad one. She had never had a husband in all the years I had known her; and she could not have had any calls on her purse, for when our lawyer came at my request to take over her belongings, and separate them from mine : he found nearly one hundred pounds in bank-notes in her cupboard. The first one bearing a date that denoted she was given it at my eldest brothers birth: so long ago that had it been put out to interest, it would have doubled itself before it was found among her dresses, sixteen of which, of all sorts and patterns, were in her cupboards among an accumulation of odds and ends
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