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Excerpt from The New Eclectic Magazine, Vol. 4: January-June, 1869 Dames. It was of no use, she was under two, and the conducteur turned to the theological student, still reading his breviary. At least, Monsieur, you will not affirm a story so monstrous, so incredible. The seminarist half-raised his eye-lids, bowed in a manner quite sacro sanct, and replied, I know the child, and she is under two Well, affirmed the conducteur, with some slight temper, if you get that child through the barrier without a ticket, I'll eat her, and disappeared. The women seemed frightened -having, we suspect, received the fare from their mistress - and we anticipated a scene; but we had under rated French ingenuity. Fan must play baby, said the nurse, and Fan was obviously delighted. In a minute or two she was stripped, clad in a nightgown or chemise of some sort, a handkerchief folded over her head, her hair combed back, and she herself transformed into a baby in long clothes. No human being could have detected the de ception, unless he had noticed that the nurse stooped with her weight. The little imp shut her eyes and did ingenue as if she had been bred to the stage, and as a baby in arms she was successfully carried into Paris, the seminarist leading the way through the wicket, book in hand and eyes on the floor. The women who played that trick, nevertheless watched over that child as none but the best English servants would have done, would have thought nothing of losing their own dinners to gratify any whims she might express at table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
