Fairfield, offered her a comfortable home and fair
compensation if she would accompany them, attend to the wants of the
lady and her baby during their travels, and act as companion and
housekeeper when at their Southern home. Mrs. Fairfield took it very
hard to part from her little boy, but leaving it with a reliable
nurse, and under my special observation, she was reconciled at last.
Hoping to return in one year, she left. Every thing went on well.
Her letters were full of gratitude. Her Southern friends never
allowed her to feel her subordinate position for a moment. She also
remitted regularly the wages for the nurse, and little George was,
when fifteen months old, a lovely fair boy, and as large as a child
two years old.
Some months passed during which I did not hear from Mrs. Fairfield,
nor did the nurse receive her payment. I wrote to Savannah, but
received no answer. The nurse, poor woman, naturally could not keep
the child without payment, and brought him one fine afternoon to my
house to leave him, and also demanding the back pay. My own children,
being delighted with the dear little fellow, we decided to keep and
bring him up as our own child should his mother never return. And
many of my fair patients will remember the lovely, little
curly-headed fellow who would run into the parlor uninvited, but
whose large blue eyes would appeal so sweetly to be allowed to stay.
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