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158 AMERICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS.
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For It Is Some Certain Time That A More ...
scrutinized their faces with an anxious look , asking of the elder , — Do you think I shall pull through , sirV 'I hope so , my man ! ' And as the woul two d
h passed ave won on , a John clearer ' s eye answer still followed from them him had with they an intentness seen it . A which momentary ecli shadow he flitted had over acknowled his face ged , then the came existence the , usual of som serenit e hard y , as _j ) if ossibilit in that brief and
asking pse nothing , yet hoping all things , left the issue in God ' s hand , with y , that , submission " The next which night is , true as I piety went . my rounds with Dr . P ., I happened to ask in the suffered mostand to he
which man room probably , my great surprise , glanced " ' at John breath . lie draws is like a stab for the ball ierced the left lung
broke Every a riband did no end of damage here ; and there : p so the poor lad can , find or suffocate neither , forgetfulness It will be nor a hard ease strugg , because leand he must a long lie on one his for wounded lie possesses back ,
great vitality . ; but even his temperate life , can ' t save him— , I wish it could . ' " * You don't mean there he not must the die sli , Dr htest I ' for himand d better tell
lim " ' so Bless before you long , ; women ' s have a g way of hope doing such things , you comfortabl ' y , so I leave " I could it to have you . sat He down won on 't last the more spot and than cried a day heartil or two , if at I farthest had not . ' learned
y , seemed the wisdom of hard bottling for such up one a man ' s tears when for half leisure -a-dozen moments worn . -out Such worthless an end very , ,
army on bodies for needed years round perhaps men him , like were , burdens John gathering , e to arnest others up , brave the , dail remnants , y and reproaches faithful of wasted ; to fi themselves ghting lives for , to . liberty linger The could
not and g justice ive him with up so both soon heart , or think and with hand , any a true patience soldier of of so the excellent Lord . a I nature robbed stupidit of of its those fulfilment at whose , and hands blundered so into lives eternity be required by the . rashness It was an or
easy thing y for Dr . P . to say , ' Tell him many he must die may , ' but a cruelly hard thing to do , and by no means as ' comfortable * as he politely suggested . I had not
the heart to do it then , and privately indulged the hope that some change for task the b unnecessary etter might . tak A e few place minutes , in spite later of , g as loomy I cam prop e in hesies again — with so rendering fresh rollers my ,
I dressed saw John his back sitting . I erect had never with happened no one to to support see it him done , while before the , for surgeon having simpler wounds to attend to , and knowing the fidelity of the attendant , I had
left stren John gth and to him experience , thinking were it might needed be in his more cas agreeable e : I had forgotten and safe , that for both the strong man might long for the gentler tendance of a woman ' s hands , the
about sympathetic him . The magnetism doctor ' s of words a woman caused ' s presence me to reproach , as well myself as the with feebler neg souls lect , lonel solace not of homesick and any fors real aken duty spirits just perhap , and then s make , as but he the of sat those heavy with little hours bent cares pass head easier and hands kindnesses . folded John looked on that his
none had roll knee down seen , y wept and many and no Yet outward drop suffer it did upon , some si not gn the of swore seem , suffering floor , weak some . . It , till onl was groaned , looking a new , most touching si nearer ght endured , there , I and saw , for silentl strai gr thoug eat htway y tears , but h I
my fear vanished . , my heart opened wi , de and y very took him in , , as gathering g the bent head in my arms as freely as if he had been a little child , I said , ' Let me help you bear it , John . ' swift and beautiful
look " Never of gratitude , on any , surprise human , countenance and comfort , , have as that I seen which so answered me more a eloquently than the whispered" ' Thank you , ma'am ; this it before is right ? good ! this is what I wanted !'
" ' Then why not ask for '
158 American Women And Hospitals.
158 AMERICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/14/
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