are much older now: & doing as well:
but the 'object' talks exactly as if it
were a Matron: or a Grandmama: of it's Master
& Mistress "who can't do without me at home".
And it is true.
F.N.'s Appendix No. 2.
2. The greatest griefs we have are at our
Workhouse Infirmaries:
children claimed by their bad mothers:
we have one now whose mother has (luckily)
run away: the Matron keeps it in her own rooms: