The baby got well. Whether the mill charm worked the cure, or
whether the fine fresh breezes of that healthy district made a
change for the better in the child's state, could not be proved.

Nor were these the only possible causes of the recovery.

The kind-hearted butler blessed the day when he laid out three and
eightpence in a box of the bone-setter's ointment, to such good
purpose.

Lady Louisa's mamma triumphantly hoped that it would be a lesson to
her dear daughter never again to set a London doctor's advice
(however expensive) above a mother's (she meant a grandmother's)
experience.

The cook said, "Goose-grease and kitchen physic for her!"

And of course the doctor very properly, as well as modestly,
observed that "he had confidently anticipated permanent beneficial
results from a persevering use of the embrocation."

And only to the nurse and the windmiller's family was it known that
Miss Amabel Adeline Ammaby had been dipped in the mill-hopper.



CHAPTER IX.

GENTRY BORN.--LEARNING LOST.--JAN'S BEDFELLOW.--AMABEL.