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AMEBICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS. 159
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For It Is Some Certain Time That A More ...
" ' 1 didn't like to be a trouble , you seemed so busy and I could manage to get " on ' You alone shall he / not for want it understand any more , the John wistfu . ' l look that sometimes followed
me " Nor as I did went out , , after now I a brief pause beside his bed , or merely a passing nod , while urgent , busied in their with demands those who now seemed I knew to th need at to me him more as than to so he , because I was more the
poor substitute for mother ; , wife , or sister , and in his , eyes no many stranger , , but a guessed friend who the hitherto cause . had This seemed was changed neglectful now : , and for , throug in his modest h the tedious y , he had operation never and his woundshe leaned
but my state of probing hand me of . mind fast When , b , athing a that n he d if was , would pain lai wrung dressing d not down let furth me again er rest , tears I hovered till from , I had him about bathed , no him against one his in saw face a me remorseful them b holding rushe fall d
his heath l bonny and heliotrope brown hair on , ' his set all clean things pillow smooth . , While about doing him this , and , he laid watched , a knot me of liked to and when offered the little
nosegay with regarding surveyed the , held satisfied and the it g smelt limmer carefull expression it of y with in the his an sunshine I great so air of hand on genuin the , see smoothed green e , deli . ght Althoug a , and ruffled I lay h the leaf contentedl manliest or two y ,
man suggestions among for my his forty comfort , he said with the Yes qui , ma ck ' am smile , ' like that a bri little ghtened boy , his received whole face softl ; and touch now and then as , as if I to stood assur tid e y himself ing the th table at I b was y his there bed , I Any felt thing him
y my gown . brave more natural yet full and of excellencies frank I never and saw fine , and asp foun irations d this which brave having John as no b power ashful to as
, themselves in wordsseemed to have bloomed , into , his character and made express him what he was ,
. devoted "After to that his ni ease ght , or an leasure hour of . each He could evening not that talk remained muchfor to breath him was was p
precious and he spoke in whispers , but from occasional conversations , I gleaned for scrap him s of private Once he history asked me which to write only a added letter to and the as affection I settled and respect and I felt pen paper
I said . with an irrepressible glimmer of feminine , curiosity , ' Shall it be , addressed "' Neither to wife ma ' , or mother I ' ve got , John no wife ?' and will write to mother myself when
touching I get better a p , . lain Did ring , you he think wore , 1 and was , often married turned because thoug of htful this ly ? on ' he his asked finger ,
when he lay alone . " ' Partly seldom that , but more until from th a settled sort of look you have , a look which
young " ' I men didn't know get thatbut I ey ' m marry not so . ' ma ' amthirty in May
and have been what you , might call settled very this young ten , years , , for mother ' s a , widow ; I ' m the oldest child she has , and it wouldn't do for me to marry not till
rich Lizzy and has I a home must of be her father own to , and the Laurie children ' s learned and husban his trade d to , the for we dear ' re old
wom , an , if I can . ' " ' No doubt but t you are both bad , John ; yet how ? came you to go to war if you
felt " so No ? , ma Wasn ' am ' , not enlisting went as I because as see it , as for couldn marry one is ing t hel help ' ing it my didn neig t hbour want , the the other
p or leasing the pay myself , I wanted . I the right thin I g done , ' and p peop . le I kept ' saying the g men lory held who were off as in long earnest as I oug could ht to fi not ght knowing . I was which in earnest was the my Lord duty knows ; mother ! but saw I
the case , gave me her ring to , keep me steady , and said l Go , ' so I went . ' pourtrayed "A short better story th and an page a simp s of fine le one writing , but could the man have and done the it . mother were
• " * Do you ever regret that you came when you lie here suffering so much V '
Amebican Women And Hospitals. 159
AMEBICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS . 159
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/15/
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