The Pot of Gold - And Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins
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"We will lift her Royal Highness out very carefully, and possibly we
can put her to bed without waking her," said the Head-nurse. But her Royal Highness's ladies-of-the-bed-chamber who were in waiting set up such screams of horror at her remark, that it was a wonder that the Princess did not awake directly. "O-h!" cried a lady-of-the-bed-chamber, "put her Royal Highness to bed, in defiance of all etiquette, before the Prima Donna of the court has sung her lullaby! Preposterous! Lift her out without waking her, indeed! This nurse should be dismissed from the court!" "O-h!" cried another lady, tossing her lovely head scornfully, and giving her silken train an indignant swish; "the idea of putting her Royal Highness to bed without the silver cup of posset, which I have here for her!" "And without taking her rose-water bath!" cried another, who was dabbling her lily fingers in a little ivory bath filled with rose-water. "And without being anointed with this Cream of Lilies!" cried one with a little ivory jar in her hand. "And without having every single one of her golden ringlets dressed with this pomade scented with violets and almonds!" cried one with a round porcelain box. "Or even having her curls brushed!" cried a lady as if she were fainting, and she brandished an ivory hair-brush set with turquoises. |
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