Curious, if True, by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Title: Curious, if True Strange Tales

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

Release Date: March 21, 2008 [EBook #24879]

Language: English

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CURIOUS, IF TRUE

STRANGE TALES

Mrs Gaskell

Contents

The Old Nurse's Story

The Poor Clare

Lois the Witch

The Grey Woman

Curious, if True

THE OLD NURSE'S STORY

You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I daresay you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. I was just a girl in the village school, when, one day, your grandmother came in to ask the mistress if there was any scholar there who would do for a nurse-maid; and mighty proud I was, I can tell ye, when the mistress called me up, and spoke of me being a good girl at my needle, and a steady, honest girl, and one whose parents were very respectable, though they might be poor. I thought I should like nothing better than to serve the pretty young lady, who was blushing as deep as I was, as she spoke of the coming baby, and what I should have to do

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