[The Railway Children by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Railway Children CHAPTER III 13/25
But she remembered about when she was a little girl herself, and she did say it--and neither her own children nor you nor any other children in the world could ever understand exactly what it cost her to do it.
Only some few of you, like Bobbie, may understand a very little bit. It was the very next day that Mother had to stay in bed because her head ached so.
Her hands were burning hot, and she would not eat anything, and her throat was very sore. "If I was you, Mum," said Mrs.Viney, "I should take and send for the doctor.
There's a lot of catchy complaints a-going about just now.
My sister's eldest--she took a chill and it went to her inside, two years ago come Christmas, and she's never been the same gell since." Mother wouldn't at first, but in the evening she felt so much worse that Peter was sent to the house in the village that had three laburnum trees by the gate, and on the gate a brass plate with W.W.Forrest, M.D., on it. W.W.Forrest, M.D., came at once.
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