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184 “CARROTS.”

  
 

not feel far away from each other. And though

 
 

it was the very first time in Carrots’s life that

 
 

he had gone to bed without kind old nurse to

 
 

tuck him up, he did not feel unhappy ; for Floss

 
 

reminded him what a good thing it was that

 
 

their mother had nurse with her now she was
ill, and besides, Sybil’s French maid Denise

 
    

was very kind and merry, and not at all “stuck

 
 

up” or grand.

 
 

And the waking the next morning!

 
 

Who does not know those first wakings in a

 
 

strange place? Sometimes so pleasant, some-

    
 

times so sad, but never, I think, without a

 
 

strange interestingness of their own. This

 
 

waking was pleasant, though so strange. The

 
 

sun was shining for one thing —a great thing,
I think I should call it, and the children felt it
to be so.

 
       
 

They woke about the same time, and called
out to each other; and then Floss got out of

 
 

bed, and went to see how Carrots was looking,

 
 

after all his adventures.

 
 

“You haven’t caught cold, I hope, Carrots,”

 
 

she said in a motherly tone.