In the street
infants played or fought with other
infants or sat stupidly in the way of vehicles.
Unable to give any account of himself he was arrested as a vagrant and sentenced to imprisonment in the
Infants' Sheltering Home--where he was washed.
So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized
infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.
For then, an inclined plane of unfortunate
infants would be handed over to the prosiest and worst of all the teachers with good intentions, whom nobody older would endure.
Nature's ideal butterfly was here realized in all its perfection; not in the pattern of such faded insects as flit among earthly flowers, but of those which hover across the meads of paradise for child-angels and the spirits of departed
infants to disport themselves with.
If you remember that
Infant who told a tale to Eustace Cleever the novelist, you will remember that he became a baronet with a vast estate.
Here, having spent some minutes on his knees--a custom which he never broke through on any account--he was preparing to step into bed, when, upon opening the cloathes, to his great surprize he beheld an
infant, wrapt up in some coarse linen, in a sweet and profound sleep, between his sheets.
'this is the
infant phenomenon--Miss Ninetta Crummles.'
So when in time a son was born the
infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron.
When the young woman -- the mother of this child -- stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the
infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress.
Prince Andrew ran to the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an
infant.
"Of course it's just the same THING; but a baby has got to be called babe or
infant in a circular, the same as it is in poetry!