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PERMANENT INVALIDS. 189
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our naturethe instinct of self-preservation . We know a lady who passed , the best years of her youth in left nursing tlie two death elderl of y
relation the last s in so succession shattered , in and health who was and latel spirits y that _5 on she may be , hstill in to havlost middle life
well sai her d , as thoug heal youth th , . from This young her young devotion lad years y ' s to , education her sick e suffered friends as and much she as _,
willing of as preventing ly gave or up even social regretting pleasures these for their sacrifices sake . the But , old instead lady
, Amy whom , " she whenever nursed poor used Amy to say left th the at sick " no -room one was where so her gay life as This
was invalid thoug spent h used this , for to was a comp few of lain hours course of ' Amy refreshment the ' poor s sleep g ing irl in ' s so the great soundl country comfort y at . nig and ht ,
preservative . Another young friend of ours , who had scarcely been out her of in a Eng tour land wh , i was ch she invited was about by an to invalid make lad throug y to h accom some
invitation pany of the most with interesting delight , countries and they of spent Europe a considerable . She accep time ted the in wonders of
travelling and resting amongst some of the chief nature and art . But the young lady would hav time e seen in nearl of y the as
much omnibuses of both that if run she between had spen London t the sam and e Stoke ! N one " ewington , for the invalid was not energetic enough to visit galleries and facilitate her
museums herselfnor amiable enough to young friend returned ' s visiting homeshe them , had without not seen her the , so in th terior at when of a the sing poor le public girl
frien bu invalid and ilding affectionate d of sister ! ours Still , , , to who greater whom At had last she lived heartlessness she had was for always many taken was years been ill shewn of , most alone a painful to _attentive with an and old an
fatalbut not an . infectious disease , when her invalid sister soon left so sad her , she , and could went bear into it the no country longer . , say This ing lad that y , her too 1 her , home was sister well was
enh to walk aboutand if she could not nurse , was oug quite able to amuse , and he indul ] p her . with But many which year she had s of
invalid lifeand the injudicious gence been made treated her so , selfish by her that famil her y , and own especiall comfort y was by this her s aramount ister , had p
the object famil in every on another circumstance , occasion of life she ; suddenl so that when left the death house entered and y
her she newl could y y widowed ive her sister because , who as , was she in p great lainly need said of " all the the scene help
was too dull g for her . , " , , We attached hear . peop wives le speak who with quick sentimental ly follow their comp husbands lacency of to the the
grave many : but ought we to take the fact so pleasantly when in
Permanent Invalids. 189
PERMANENT INVALIDS . 189
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/45/
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