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When asked how she came to Ward’s Island, she said “By ambulance.” The physical condition presented nothing of note, except for a certain sluggishness of the skin with marked comedones. By January, 1914, the picture changed somewhat and she then presented the following state for an entire year: The mutism persisted and indeed became even more absolute, and she began to wet and soil constantly.
Climate and race may have something to do with this, but a more real and efficient cause seems to me to be the hard labour of the women, and the heavy weights they constantly carry.
You mustn't expect a letter, but you will see him again one day, and that will be better than a letter. So the time slipped on, and writing so constantly to Philip and hearing from him in return, was my greatest consolation during his absence.
I carried pistols and a dagger constantly about me and was ever on the watch to prevent artifice, and by these means gained a greater degree of tranquillity.
In the new communities which our emigrating habit now constantly creates, this prosaic turn of mind is intensified.
Then, to increase the complication, the center of interest is constantly changing, being during one period at Vienna, during another at Frankfort-on-the-Main, during another at Berlin, and during others at other places.
On the first trial I made of his talents in my official functions, I found him less troublesome than I expected he would have been, considering he was a man without experience, in the service of an ambassador who possessed no more than himself, and whose ignorance and obstinacy constantly counteracted everything with which common-sense and some information inspired me for his service and that of the king.
Of one thing I was satisfied, my new occupation was likely to be no sinecure; there was evidently work enough to keep me constantly employed, and WAKOMETKLA would no doubt see to it that I wasted no time. For the remainder of the day I was kept hard at it, with the exception of the brief period allowed me for partaking of my food.
When at last this love had come to her, when in 'Pasquin Leroy' she thought she had found the true companion of her life and heart, when he had constantly accompanied her by his own choice, on her errands of mercy among the poor; and had aided the sick and the distressed by his own sympathy and tenderness, she had almost allowed herself to dream of possible happiness.
"I see nothing," said the Captain, "nothing, not even a passing sail; which is quite uncommon at this season, when so many vessels are constantly passing and repassing our island; not even the light-boat do I see, which is probably owing to a fog coming in from the sea, as yet imperceptible to us here. Poor fellows! I fear they have gone down without a soul to help them!
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