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wet-nurse
1. ‘Arnold’s playing wet-nurse to a pathetic bunch of born-again-Christians who’ve had an argument with their preacher
2. In the antebellum South, children of plantation owners were often wet-nursed and
3. They will provide for their nurture, and will bring the mothers to the fold when they are full of milk, taking the greatest possible care that no mother recognises her own child; and other wet-nurses may be engaged if more are required
4. The baby was lying with its head thrown back, stiffening itself in the nurse’s arms, and would not take the plump breast offered it; and it never ceased screaming in spite of the double hushing of the wet-nurse and the other nurse, who was bending over her
5. Neither the wet-nurse nor the head nurse were there; they were in the
6. Isobel warn’d o’ this an’ bid me fetch a Wet-Nurse fer the Babe, but ’twas yer Wish to suckle her yerself
7. The Wet-Nurse came at last, both to my Relief and my Regret
8. Better a Wet-Nurse than a starving Babe
9. Doubtless she hop’d to convince us that she was comfortably fixt and scarce needed the Money, but took this Place for Love of Babes alone—unlike the mercenary Wet-Nurses of Song and Story
10. Like all Wet-Nurses, ’twas not enough for her to suckle the Infant, she had to castigate the Mother as well! Likewise, would she criticize my Dress, make dire Predictions concerning my future Health, and mock my Views upon the Government of Children
11. For finding himself bitterly disappointed to be presented with a Daughter as his First-born, he banish’d her to a Wet-Nurse in the Country and would ne’er set Eyes upon her until, as he said, she’d reach’d “the Age of Reason
12. This made me so enraged that I could scarce tolerate Prue’s Presence in our House one Moment longer, but Susannah stopp’d me from reprimanding her, reminding me of the Difficulty we’d had in finding a Wet-Nurse upon such short Notice
13. (For mark you, Belinda, the Accoucheurs were also the Purveyors of Wet-Nurses in London then, and no Accoucheur in Town would have Dealings with us after Dr
14. “For where will you find a Wet-Nurse upon the Instant?”
15. By Day, I abandon’d my Romance and devoted myself to finding a new Wet-Nurse whose Philosophies should accord more with my own, whilst by Night I scribbl’d
16. Ne’ertheless, I am sure that most of ’em thought me quite daft—for who but your fond and foolish Mother would probe a Wet-Nurse to discover her Philosophies? Doubtless they would have been less surpriz’d had I askt to taste their Milk!
17. “Choose the Wet-Nurse fer her Milk, not her Philosophy,” Susannah begg’d
18. ’Twas not possible that I had borne Belinda with so much Agony, only to lose her to a Wet-Nurse’s Folly!
19. And Women are so scarce upon those Isles that a Wet-Nurse should be noted easily
20. All the good Things I had gain’d—leaving Lymeworth to seek my Fortune, making my Mutiny within the Brothel, insisting upon my own Terms for being kept by Lord Bellars, becoming Whitehead’s Scribe, altering Lancelot’s Pyrate Articles, learning the Craft of Pyracy itself—were gain’d thro’ killing the Lady in myself and playing the Pyrate! The Lady and the Pyrate! ’Twas as if two people battl’d for Supremacy within my very Soul: one a Vapourish Lady and one a Daring Pyrate, and they were so unlike each other they were scarce on speaking Terms! Whilst the Lady in myself was quiv’ring and quailing in Cowardice, the Pyrate was itching to breathe free! ’Twas the Pyrate who could command a Ship, scale a Shroud in a trice, climb to the Top of a Crow’s-Nest, and scour the Seas expertly with a Spying-Glass! ’Twas the Pyrate who had beguil’d Lord Bellars into keeping me, all unknowing of my True Identity; and ’twas the Pyrate who had earn’d Whitehead’s wary Trust by becoming his Amanuensis! ’Twas the Pyrate who had endur’d a Childbirth few endure, but ’twas the Lady who, in her Guilt and Vapourish Fear, allow’d a Wet-Nurse to tyrannize o’er her and steal the very Jewel of her Existence! ’Twas the Pyrate who amended Lancelot’s Articles, but ’twas the Lady who at first resented Bonny both for her Beauty and for her Freedom! O I must learn from Bonny, not resent her, I thought; for she is what all Women long to be! E’en Chaucer says it thro’ the Wife of Bath: The Fair Sex seeks that “absolute Command / With all the Government of House and Land; / And Empire o’er his Tongue, and o’er his Hand!”
21. I’faith, ’twas I who found the Wet-Nurse, who was my Friend
22. “But,” Isobel continu’d, “Cecilia would not hear of Daniel being taken from her—for she had borne him in so much Pain and had sorely miss’d her little Daughter when she was foster’d out to nurse, therefore she hired a Wet-Nurse to attend Daniel here at Lymeworth and ne’er let him out of her Sight, having the Babe and Wet-Nurse sleep in her Ante-Chamber so that e’en in her weaken’d Condition, she could oft’ visit ’em
23. Arriving for dinner at the village, and leaving his horse at the cottage of an old friend of his, the husband of his brother's wet-nurse, Levin went to see the old man in his bee-house, wanting to find out from him the truth about the hay
24. I wanted to hire out as a wet-nurse, but they will not take me: they say that I am too thin
25. On the balcony stands a wet-nurse holding a baby and a boy
26. I wanted to go as a wet-nurse, but no one would have me because they said I was too thin
27. Not those women who are occupied by their figures, bustles, head-dresses, and their charms for men, and who, against their will, by accident and in despair, bear children, and then give them over to wet-nurses; nor yet those who go to different lectures, and talk of psychometrical centres of differentiation, and who also try to free themselves from bearing children not to hinder their folly, which they call development,—but those women and mothers who, having the power of freeing themselves from child-bearing, hold strictly and consciously to that eternal, immutable law, knowing that the weight and labour of that submission is the aim of their life