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188 PERMANENT INVALIDS.
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be doubts a rarel this y for look tuna round te one the indeed circle of it his does acquaintance not afford sp ; ecimen it must s
of one of the two divisions in which most invalids may be they classed are , t doing he thoug and htless the , who selfish who not do aw not are of regard the mischief it . We
would give all ; honour to that excep , tional , though not very uncommon characterthe ermanent and yet amiable invalid .
We have known more , than p one of these holy childrenwho have been called to walk in the midst of the burning , fiery furnacebut whom even the smell of the fire has not
passed , , and whose upon companionship repays a hundred-fold whatthe ever larges services t number their friends of invalids are able to belong render to them the . clas But s of by t he
b thoug nat htless urebut : persons who are who so are much by no absorbed means in particularl their own y grasp suffer ing
fall ings y b , y as degrees to , forge in t to those the habit of oth of er receiving people , and an amount who con of sequen service tly
which might shock the most selfish person unaccustomed to it . requiring For instance cons , a tant friend and of car ours eful , in atten an tion illness by ni of h many t as well month as b s y ,
day , declined all help except that of her young g nieces , because invalid a she liked was humoured y to have little hands course about the h er . " ers O f f cours the li e t t he
hands suffered . One , of themthreatened with disease of the brain of rest from soon the succumbed great excitem and en , t ano produced ther has by never anxiet during y and loss the
seventeen , years which have ; since passed , recovered , the health i t hich is no s t long had s alway ince w s e nj oyed t a be lad fore h still er aun in t the ' s illness prime . of Again life ,
whose sight had suddenly failed y so much in consequence of , . nursinher father too closelthrough a long illnessthat she
g y , in wa jured s threatened her spine with tw blindness enty year . s si And nce ano by ther frequentl friend y lifting of purs her so
in niece valid during ever since a long ; and illness we h , eard that th she e oth has er day been of a confirmed person in
left ill health for a , on sing whose le nig account ht , the a smok sister y has town never in for which thirteen they years live ,
renouncing the enjoyment of the country , and the refreshment especiall of variety , which Is it , not those probable who live that with -in this the case sick as require in so
y . , many have others gained , the nurs ? e The has reall lost y infinitel selfish y invalids more than are a the much patient smaller can
numerous class than that of h which to be not we hav unimportant e been speaking and al , thoug but th h ey even are
the selfishness enoug of the sick should not be jud ; ged harshly , their
own encroachments moral good must , as well sometimes as in obedience be steadil to y that resisted prim , ary for law their of
188 Permanent Invalids.
188 PERMANENT INVALIDS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/44/
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