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Excerpt from Sir Cyrus of Stonycleft, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Miss Bedfield soon found that there was little fear of her rule in the nursery being set aside by Sir Cyrus, when even to name the baby in his presence, was almost more than She dared do. Being now nearly fifty years Of age and never having been brought into contact with babies, the nicety and watch ful care with which the little creature was tended somewhat astonished her while the dressing of SO small an infant, struck her as something marvellous, and she generally passed her morn ings in looking at it as it lay quietly asleep in 'her lap as to handling it when awake, that was an exploit quite beyond her powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.