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RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD 5
The skirmish between nurse and the governess was
repeated, point for point, every morning.
The sun has long since peeped into our nursery.
We children are beginning, one by one, to open our
eyes, but we are in no haste to rise and dress.
Between the moment of wakening and the moment
of setting about our toilets lies a long interval of
nestling about, throwing pillows at one another,
seizing one another by the bare feet, and chattering all
sorts of nonsense.
An appetizing odor of coffee begins to waft through
the room. Nurse herself, only half clad, and having
merely changed her night-cap for the silken kerchief
which invariably conceals her hair during the day,
brings in a tray with a big copper coffee-pot, and
begins to regale us — still in bed, still unwashed,
uncombed—with coffee and cream, and with rolls
prepared with milk, eggs, and butter.
It sometimes happens that, after eating, we are
wearied with the process of digestion, and fall asleep
again.
But now the door of the nursery flies open
noisily, and the angry governess makes her appearance
on the threshold.
"Comment! Vous ëtes encore au lit, Annette!
II est onze heures. Vous ëtes encore en retard pour
votre le(jon! "1 she wrathfully exclaims.
" They cannot be allowed to sleep so long. I shall
complain to the general!" she says to nurse.
"And the master’s child can’t even have enough
sleep! She’s låte for your lesson ! A great
misfortune, truly! Well, just you wait — you ’re not such
a grand person, after all!"
1 "What! You are still in bed, Annette! It is eleven o’clock.
You are låte again for your lessons."
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