A Great Emergency and Other Tales

always tired, we began to count for how long past, if the leg had been broken, it would have been set, and poor Rupert quite well. And when Johnny Bustard said that legs and arms were often str

ke a good

and impatient. But as the year went on he left off talking about its being all nonsense, and though he suffered a gr

ve him all to myself; when Rupert was "out" with me because of the Weston affair, I was "particular friends" with Henrietta. I did not exactly give her up when Rupert and I were a

ing Rupert's knee, and after that she always did the fomentations and things. At first Rupert said she hurt him, and would have Nurse to do it; but Nurse hurt him so much more, that then he would not let anybody but Henrietta touch it. And he never called her Monkey now, and I could see how she tried to please him. One day she came down to breakfast with her hair all done up in the way that was in fashion then, like a grown-up young lady, and I think Rup

f it wasn't enough to have to run the risk of being killed or wounded once or twi

der the arm, with which he was waving his sword over his head, Rupert turned whiter than ever, and said, "Good Heavens, Henrietta! Father limped up to

and he said there was "an abnormal condition of the pulse," in such awful tones, that I was afraid it was somethin

to him when he was ill, but the

went on with the business. We had a great discussion once in the nursery as to whether Johnson's father was a gen

ngs you children do ask! Why can't you amuse yourselves in the nursery? It

say that Mother said "Of course not." But Henrietta said, "What did you ask her?" And when Rupert told her she said, "Of co

kind. They owned a lot of canal-boats, and one or two big b

why my house is close to the wharf. I am not ashamed of my trade, and the place is very comfortable, so I shall stick to it

ered it so thickly that it is clipped round the old-fashioned windows like a hedge. The gardens are simply perfect. In summer you c

his father's trap and take Rupert out for drives, and Mrs. Johnson used to put meat pies and strawberries in a basket under th

taking completely to Henrietta, and most of all, I fancy, because Johnson Minor was determined to be friends with me. He was a very odd fellow. There was nothing he liked so much as wonderful stories about people, and

father was nothing to the tales he told m