,Being always in a state of
gaping admiration at everything, and absorbed, be-
sides, in the perpetual contemplation of her mistress's
perfections and the baby's, Miss Slowboy, in her little
errors of judgment, may be said to have done equal
honour to her head and to her heart; and though these
did less honour to the baby's head, which they were
the occasional means of bringing into contact with
deal doors, dressers, stair-rails, bedposts, and other
foreign substances, still they were the honest results
of Tilly Slowboy's constant astonishment at finding
herself so kindly treated, and installed in such a com-
fortable home. For, the maternal and paternal Slow-
boy were alike unknown to Fame, and Tilly had been
bred by public charity, a foundling; which word,
though only differing from fondling by one vowel's
length, is very different in meaning, and expresses
quite another thing.
To have seen little Mrs. Peerybingle come back
with her husband, tugging at the clothes-basket, and
making the most strenuous exertions to do nothing
at all (for he carried it), would have amused you
almost as much as it amused him.
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