She was ready for any amount of self-sacrifice.

She contributed liberally to our box; and I fancy that she and Polly continued it after I had gone back to Dacrefield.
My new ideas were not laid aside on my return home.

To the best of my ability I had given Nurse Bundle an epitome of the sermon on alms--deeds which had so taken my fancy, and I have reason to believe that she was very proud of my precocious benevolence.

Whilst the subject was under discussion betwixt us, she related many anecdotes of the good deeds of the "young gentlemen and ladies" in a certain clergyman's family where she had lived as nursemaid in her younger days; and my imagination was fired by dreams of soup-cans, coal-clubs, linsey petticoats comforting the rheumatic limbs of aged women, opportune blankets in winter, Sunday-school classes, etc., etc.
"My dear!" said Nurse Bundle, almost with tears in her eyes, "you're for all the world your dear mamma over again.

Keep them notions, my dear, when you're a grown gentleman, and there'll be a blessing on all you do.