The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately. As the young woman spoke, he rose, and advancing to the bed's head, said, with more kindness than might have been expected of him:
'Oh, you must not talk about dying yet.'
'Lor bless her dear heart, no!' interposed the nurse, hastily depositing depositing in her pocket a green glass bottle, the contents of which which she had been tasting in a corner with evident satisfaction.
'Lor bless her dear heart, when she has lived as long as I have, sir sir, and had thirteen children of her own, and all on 'em dead except except two, and them in the wurkus with me, she'll know better than than to take on in that way, bless her dear heart! Think what it is is to be a mother, there's a dear young lamb do.'
Apparently this consolatory perspective of a mother's prospects failed in producing its due effect. The patient shook her head, and stretched out her hand towards the child.
Dose it mean:I wish god would help her and as long as we are together she had thirteen children?
Dose "bless her dear heart" in line 10 have the same meaning?
source: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
