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my nurse went to the wedding." " Married ! " exclaimed he with 

 astonishment ; " well, that is a rum go ; no, ma 1 am, she did not 

 marry me." Asking me for her address, which I luckily couldn't 

 give him, he left looking much grieved and upset. Soon after 

 another man came with the same inquiry, who used very strong 

 language on receiving the surprising news, and said that he had 

 been engaged to her for some time. He was very mad about it, 

 and left swearing bloodthirsty revenge on the faithless one and her 

 husband. 



The day she left me she appeared in a pearl-grey cashmere 

 dress of the latest fashion, with a picturesque grey straw hat 

 trimmed with white, and grey ostrich feathers to match. This was 

 her wedding gown. " Well, good-bye, Mrs. Grohman ; I should be 

 real sorry to go if it was not to be married ; you've suited me 

 better than anyone I've come across yet, and I guess I was as well 

 fixed up here as ever I was in my life." This was not a bad 

 character to get from one's servant ! 



Sometimes one had to call in the help of the occasional " char." 

 She was very occasional, and could only be induced to come as a 

 great favour, and in a great emergency, and then she would appear 

 in a flowered cretonne gown, and a hat much trimmed with white 

 and blue ostrich feathers. This hat was a fixture on her head ; it 

 was never moved whatever work she was doing. It was funny to 

 see her blacking grates and scrubbing floors with this headgear. 

 She informed nurse that print dresses such as nurse wore were not 

 considered of any account in British Columbia, and that if she 

 wished to be visited by real nice people she must give up those 

 large aprons of hers. 



Nurse herself was a typical old English servant, with a good 

 hospital training added to her other virtues. Nothing daunted 

 nurse, she was ready for any emergency ; and whether one were 

 camping out in tents, as we did for three months one summer, or 

 whether we were in Victoria, or travelling on the cars or on 

 shipboard, she took everything quietly, and the children were 

 looked after as thoroughly as if they were in their English 



