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She says she is grateful for the honor of the prize, but she thinks the board of editors made a mistake." I walked feebly into the room, sank on the couch, and propped myself against that yellow silk pillow. "It's horrid to be an editor," I said, "especially when Robbie Belle has to go and get taken to the infirmary just when I need her most."
But the days are like each other; and the rides and the people, and, alas! their conditions, do not vary. To-day, however, my visit to the infirmary was marked by an event which has not occurred before the death of one of the poor slaves while I was there.
They were not to keep expensive schools for rich or poor, unless with special sanction. They were to turn out of the infirmary and punish the persons lying there who were only pretending to be ill, and the really sick were to be more kindly treated.
Is it not moving nay, awful to think of all the good it has done, of the sweet stream of tenderness, broad and deep, which has flowed down from it through all history? History would all have been different if this parable had never been told." Mr. Cardew paused, and after his emotion had a little subsided he concluded by an appeal on behalf of the infirmary.
"We didn't know when he came in as it was a case for the infirmary; but seeing he was wanted for a big thing, and poorly in his 'ealth, I giv' him one of the superior cells, with a mattress and piller complete."
Only a solitary biscuit he had laid in; provision for the one or two days and nights, to which these vessels then were oftentimes obliged to prolong their voyage Upon a nearer acquaintance with him, which he seemed neither to court nor decline, we learned that he was going to Margate, with the hope of being admitted into the Infirmary there for sea-bathing.
And to be on the safe side the Countess of Chell had resigned her official patronage of the club and given her shares to the Pirehill Infirmary, which had accepted the high dividends on them without the least protest.
"It is three feet. I'll back Aunt Julia to do it for a promise of ten shillings to the infirmary." "I'll give the ten shillings, if you'll only let me off." "I won't let you off, so you might as well come at once." Then she stood and shuddered for a moment, looking with beseeching eyes up into his face. Of course she meant to jump.
She seemed to have forgotten the matter while she was entirely in the infirmary, with no companion but Sister Avice, and occasionally a lay sister, who came to help; but the first time she went down the turret stair into the cloister a beautiful succession of arches round a green court she met a novice and a girl about her own age; the elder gave a little scream at the sight and ran away.
"Were you here when it happened?" asked West. "When what happened?" responded Joel. "Haven't you heard? Why, some one cut the bell rope, and when 'Peg-leg' went to ring chapel bell the rope broke up in the tower and came down on his head and laid him out there on the floor, and some of the fellows found him knocked senseless. And they've taken him to the infirmary.
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