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under the pressure - Bravely she struggled 
in the combat self-sacrificing as the 
best Xtian martyr - but the extra 
demand at night, made her so 
sleepy by day that she was often sound 
asleep with the priceless baby in her lap 
guarded from falls by no apparent power. 
Gently I transferred her to her home in 
S- for her devotion had really drawn 
me to her and her failure was one of 
the "gradations of Mercy[?]," nobody's fault 
but Adam's - It was a great chastenence 
of my motherly pride, to part with 
a person who looked the part so 
satisfactorily - I could not easily see 
a common person take the place of 
this gay-turbaned nurse - sauntering 
over the grounds with baby calm for the 
nonce, upon her shoulder, his long white 
robe flowing effectively over her scanter[?] 
draperies -  I must insert here a 
notice of her death taken from the 
S. R. at the time -  I worried[reviled?] a little 
under[?] this reputation my innocent baby 
 
 
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