y one;' and she flung
back in her chair, and cried fit to break her heart: and I knew that the
cry would do her good, and so went back to my paper--the _Morning Post_,
ma'am; I always read it, for I like to know what's a-going on in the West
End.

"The very first thing that my eyes lighted upon was this:--'Wanted,
immediately, a respectable person as wet-nurse. Apply at No. ---,
Grosvenor Square.' 'Bless us and save us!' says I, 'here's poor Lady
Tiptoff ill;' for I knew her Ladyship's address, and how she was confined
on the very same day with Mrs. T.: and, for the matter of that, her
Ladyship knows my address, having visited here.

"A sudden thought came over me. 'My dear Mrs. Titmarsh,' said I, 'you
know how poor and how good your husband is?'

"'Yes,' says she, rather surprised.

"'Well, my dear,' says I, looking her hard in the face, 'Lady Tiptoff,
who knows him, wants a nurse for her son, Lord Poynings. Will you be a
brave woman, and look for the place, and mayhap replace the little one
that God has taken from you?'

"She began to tremble and blush; and then I told her what you, Mr. Sam,
had told me the other day about your money matters; and no sooner did she
hear it than she sprung to her bonnet, and said, 'Come, come:' and in
five minutes she had me by the arm, and we walked together to Grosvenor
Square. The air did her no harm, Mr. Sam, and during the whole of the
walk she never cried but once, and then it was at seeing a nursery-maid
in the Square.

"A great fellow in livery opens the door, and says, 'You're the forty-
fifth as come about this 'ere place; but, fust, let me ask you a
preliminary question. Are you a Hirishwoman?'

"'No, sir,' says Mrs. T.

"'That suffishnt, mem,' says the gentleman in plush; 'I see you're not by
your axnt. Step this way, ladies, if you please. You'll find some more
candidix for the place upstairs; but I sent away forty-four happlicants,
because they _was_ Hirish.'

"We were taken upstairs over very soft carpets, and brought into a room,
and told by an old lady who was there to speak very softly, for my Lady
was only two rooms off. And when I asked how the baby and her Ladyship
were, the old lady told me both were pretty well: only the doctor said
Lady Tiptoff was too delicate to nurse any longer; and so it was
considered necessary to have a wet-nurse.

"There was another young woman in the room--a tall fine woman as ever you
saw--that looked very angry and