Was it because good, faithful, ignorant Jane had been rather nervous about Ameerah that she herself had of late got into a habit of feeling as if the Ayah was watching and following her.
But afterwards she saw that the few sentences she had uttered were such as would satisfy curiosity if the Ayah felt it.
My Mem Sahib asked for a book," the Ayah quite shivered in her alarmed confusion.
The woman who had been Hester's Ayah when she was a child had become her maid.
The Ayah who so loved Hester might hate her rival.
Hester never knew that she was revealing herself and her moods until after her interviews with the Ayah were over.
Ayah had taught her in secret had only worked as they would have worked if she had been a native woman and had really used them properly!
My brother-in-law and the ayah were already on their way to India, Mrs. Burke was dead, and no one else was likely to raise the question of identity.
The ayah who had brought Rosamond from India was to return in the same ship as my brother-in-law, who was starting immediately for Madras.
When the last good-byes were said, and my brother-in-law and the ayahhad started, I found I wished to do some shopping in London before I went north.
At two o'clock Ayahcomes and sings Mildred to sleep, with the same old tune of "Doo doo baby" which you used to sing to your dolls.
One night I found my little ayah seated in the nursery when she ought to have been in the cook-house getting her supper.
Ayah is walking up and down with Mildred, and Louis Koch is running about, making her laugh.
I make the tea at six, and cut bread and butter for Ayah and Julia, and Samchoon, one of the boys who has had fever and wants feeding up.
Last month papa went to visit the Quop Mission, where Mr. and Mrs. Abi and their little baby, and your old Ayah Fatima, live.
And the end of it was that Juma went, with all her belongings, and Adam fought his own way alone into his little clothes until a new ayah came.
The ayah brought me some refreshing drink, which was very welcome after my journey, and I chatted for some time with the children, with whom I soon became fast friends.
No, sir; but there was an old ayah who attended on the little girl.
That Madras ayah is a rare treasure and as cunning as the devil; she ought to be in our Secret Service.
I should interview the ayah and inform her that you know the nature of her mistress's complaint; threaten that you will tell Mr. Krauss and have her discharged.
Your aunt has a clever ayah who knows what to do, and when, she has her attacks I leave her alone--by her own wish.
On hearing this promise Mrs. Krauss furled her fan, rose from the sofa with astonishing alacrity, and followed her ayah as commanded.
I have now found an old waiter who remembers the circumstance perfectly well--Indian ayah and sick baby and funeral.
The lady who adopted the boy must have belonged to an Indian family, because there was an ayah with her.
The ayah crouched down on a stool beside her mistress, and began whispering in her own language.
He carried himself back in imagination to the transference of the baby; he saw the doctor taking it from the mother and giving it to an ayah in the railway station.
She had an Indian ayah with her, and the train carried her off, baby and all.
You arrived one evening at the Great Midland Hotel, Birmingham, with an Indian ayah and a child.
The ayah threw back the wraps, and disclosed a lusty boy, about a year or fifteen months old.
Valises and suit-cases were piled high in the aisle and held in the owners' laps.
He reentered the study a moment later, to find that the visitor had laid aside his hat and gloves, and, with hands clasped behind him, was looking from a window across the vista of trees and roofs at the sunset sky.
Taunton told me, the other day, that he played great ball at Exeter, last year.
It sounded so much like the response of a schoolboy to the teacher that the hearers laughed with the mirth begot of tight-stretched nerves.
She stood in the middle of the room while her ayah no, her husband it must have been a man threw her clothes at her.
My idiot of an ayah has gone home, and, as I hope to sleep to-night, there isn't a soul in the place to unlace me.
Ayah heard him and came running out to see what was the matter.
Illustration] There was once a little white baby boy called Bab-ba, he had bright blue eyes and golden curls, and he had a black Ayah for his nurse.
Outside at the open door appeared for an instant the ayah as she had set down her charge, and Mrs. Gilsland, gracious but formidable, in her rustling gown, who had headed the procession.
Her refusal was based partly upon the feeling that things might be uncomfortable in the house were the ayah her enemy, and partly, she owned it with shame, upon her own pleasure in being waited upon hand and foot.
Ole ayah find Missee key right enough, and carry things up in her arms.
Ole ayah obliged to warn her sahib--and good thing too, very good thing she done it.
Then he was heard telling the ayah who had answered the summons to say that the doctor had arrived.
So she sat cogitating, planning by the fireside until, as she had expected, the ayah returned to know why she had not come down to supper.
Later, when the ayah had left the room, she could no longer resist speaking of what had occurred.
They sat down to table, the ayah waiting upon them.
Madam sighed deeply, but as the ayah now entered, with a silver entree dish in her hand, they sat down to table and the subject dropped.
The ayah raised her soft eyes to the expressive little face of the girl, who had knelt upon the hearth beside her.
She felt that her answer was listened for, not only by the lady but the ayah also; but neither seemed able to make much of it.
I do everything for my Missee, and that make ole ayah very happy.
Yes, as I hear Ninian telling your daughter, it is a most remarkable thing the way my ayahhas taken to Miss Innes.
Ole ayah never seen Missee, never know Missee, all up to this night.
She knew that Ayah was waiting there, pleadingly, hopefully, for her to speak again of the sahib--to give her some details of their adventure.
When the ayah reached the gate and saw Tony far in front she thought her other charge was with him and passed out.
She wanted to, but she was afraid that if she saw her dear Betwixt-and-Between again she would linger with him too long, and besides the ayah now kept a sharp eye on her.
When Tony and his sister arrived they wanted to go straight to the pond, but their ayah said they must take a sharp walk first, and as she said this she glanced at the time-board to see when the Gardens closed that night.
To the right you may observe anAyah spoiling some young Britons.
But when the ayah was brushing at the pretty hair Gwen's mind reverted to the question which had kept her awake.
From the next room came the sound of the ayah dusting out boxes against the immediate packing up.
Had it remained in the leather trunks escape might have been possible, but, knowing they were to halt for a day at least, she made the ayah hang up all the dresses round the tent.
As she watched the little procession bearing pillows and blankets file down the stairs, with the ayah in the rear, protesting that 'big storm come kill missy baba for laugh old Fuzli,' she felt glad to be left alone.
Waited patiently till, as it grew dark, the ayah came out and removed the cushions and parasols.
Manohar Lal say he know Mem sahiba,' murmured the ayah sulkily, moving off with the wraps.
It was not the ayahwhom she had seen; of that she felt certain.
The mem's ayah had let out that the big Huzoor, Fitzgerald sahib, was the greatest friend the mem had.
Its improved condition was the latest bulletin issued by the ayah who had snatched a moment to enjoy a cheap cigarette in the open.
Hardly, however, had she put foot in the hired victoria, when the ayah appeared, suggesting another look at the child.
It was her habit to have the baby's crib by her bed, and the ayah close at hand in case of disturbed nights, while Meredith was compelled to retire to a separate suite, adjoining hers.
He drove me in his car and carried me to my bed where the ayahtook over charge.
There was a call for hot water, and in a moment the Madrassi ayah rushed forth for the steaming kettle which was boiling for scullery needs, and carried it off without a question.
When the ayah brought Captain Dalton the news that her mistress was showing signs of waking, he poured out and took her a cup of tea, himself, and asked how she felt.
The ayah was not a little perturbed, but did not voice her feelings until speaking to Honor, fearing that they were foolish and unfounded.
My people were very particular and I was never allowed an ayah to teach me self-indulgence, nor to associate with the servants' children on the estate; for what native children do not know of evil isn't worth knowing.
Inside the tent the lady and the ayah together ministered to the small sufferer lying in the warm bath.
The swelling had to be fomented--he had shown me how--the ayah was quite a brick about learning the way.
Her ayah instructed her in Indian ways and customs, and caste susceptibilities; and it was no little tax to remember how not to offend.
Feeling unable to face the people who had known her in the Station, she departed the next morning for Muktiarbad, leaving her infantile charge and its ayah to the tender mercies of the Sanitarium.
Elsewhere, theayah crooned lullabies to the baby who no longer needed strict watching.
Mummy and the children went next, leaving a weeping ayah at the new Alexandra Dock in Bombay.
In April, when the hot weather set in, he and mummy and ayah and Jean went to the hills, as usual; but daddy stayed in cantonments.
Mrs. Frith was often hasty--four children and anayah in the Red Sea are enough to put an edge on the smoothest temper--but she was always fair even in her hastiness.
My eldest daughter has to aid the ayah with the children; then there is the cooking to be done by me, and the room to be kept tidy by Edith and Nelly, and there are so many sick and suffering to be attended to.
We are really most fortunate, Mr. Johnson, in having our ayah still with us; so many were deserted by their servants altogether, and she is an admirable nurse.
The ayah was badly hurt, and we all had close escapes; the shells from that battery are terrible.
All was now ready for the start, everything in its place, and the ayah on the seat with the driver.
The ayah went into Mrs. Ballantyne's room and found her mistress sound asleep.
I was asleep and in bed when my ayah came into my room with the news of his death.
The ayah was never for a moment shaken upon that point.
She was found quietly asleep in her bed by the ayah when she came to call her in the morning.
They then roused Mrs. Ballantyne's ayah and bade her wake her mistress.
And as he stood doing it the ayah opened the corridor door, and Mrs. Crespin passed by her into the snuggery.
Iris and Ronald’s ayah and bearer had known it hours ago.
She did not see either Rukh or Watkins until she was well inside the room, and the ayah had reclosed the door she had opened, and had disappeared.
Yes,” she said, and gesturing the ayah to show her the way, went slowly and calmly back to the palace door.
As the ayahclosed the door, he repeated softly, cruelly too, “She bears beautiful children.
When the ayah had gone—dismissed by a smile and a gesture of thanks—the native woman not, Lucilla Crespin thought, utterly pitiless—Lucilla knelt down by her bed.
She was threading her way back through the garden—the ayah stood quietly waiting at the side-door of the palace-wall.
The children and their ayah and bearer had been sent to Pahari about a month before Major Crespin’s leave was due, nearly two years after the American General had broken Colonel Agnew’s regiment’s bread, and honored its salt.
And she turned and went with the men, the young ayah close behind her as they entered the door in the palace wall.
Only the young ayah came near her—bringing her food and drink, silently offering her attendance.
The ayah and the little girl set off, never suspecting any evil.
So she set out, taking the key of the well, the box with the clothes her ayah had bought for her in the bazar, and plenty of rupees.
Then she sent her ayah to the bazar to buy her clothes and ornaments such as cowherd's wives and daughter's wear; and when the ayah had brought her these, she packed them up in a box.
Fancy two grown men being so frightened by an old ayah or a fakir!
He was exceedingly fond of his two children, and got for them two servants: a man to cook their dinner, and an ayah to take care of them.
No one came, though my ayah assured me that several jealously-guarded dhoolies arrived at the garden-gate and went away again when Mrs. Futteh Deen never turned up.
Ayah will bring Boy down ready dressed when we want him--so please don't be late.
But she promised the anxious ayah as she went away that she would come in from time to time for a few days to see that all went well.
I might have gone long ago when they went, for they always called me a fine ayah and always praised me to all of their guests, but when they moved away to Allahabad I did not want to leave my family.
A soft voice arrested his step and Nona's ayah besought him: "Sahib, she is no better.
The father and the little girl watched the monkey and her baby with great interest until the ayah came and took Marjory in to bed.
Shut your eyes," said Mary, drawing her footstool closer, "and I will do what myAyah used to do in India.
She wondered also who would take care of her now her Ayah was dead.
But no one would tell her anything and her Ayah did not come.
It was not the custom to say "please" and "thank you" and Mary had always slapped her Ayah in the face when she was angry.
Do you suppose that instead of singing the Ayah song--you could just tell me softly as you did that first day what you imagine it looks like inside?
The Ayah had been taken ill in the night, and it was because she had just died that the servants had wailed in the huts.
My Ayah didn't like me and I never played with any one.
What she thought was that she would like to know if she was going to nice people, who would be polite to her and give her her own way as her Ayah and the other native servants had done.
The stories she had been told by her Ayah when she lived in India had been quite unlike those Martha had to tell about the moorland cottage which held fourteen people who lived in four little rooms and never had quite enough to eat.
When her Ayah was dead there was no one to give a thought to the little thing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ayah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
