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"Papa is very sick," Nurse had answered guardedly, "and he had letters to-day that were too much for him." "Then he shouldn't have letters," said the child, decidedly. "I'll tell him so to-morrow."
And she had helped to nurse him, and he had shown himself grateful for her kindness and condescension, and the rest followed, as surely as the day follows the night. But how would it end?
Last night, when I was up in the room there, it come acrost me all of a sudden that, from what I'd seen of this Nantucket woman, she'd be jest the sort of nurse that John needed. So I skipped out while you fellers was busy with the Doctor, found her at the hotel, explained things to her, and got her to come down. That's all there is to that.
'John dear, said Bella, 'you're a good nurse; will you please hold baby? Having deposited the Inexhaustible in his arms with those words, Bella looked hard at Mr Boffin, who had moved to a table where he was leaning his head upon his hand with his face turned away, and, quietly settling herself on her knees at his side, and drawing one arm over his shoulder, said: 'Please I beg your pardon, and I made a small mistake of a word when I took leave of you last.
"Cease, I pray you," said Lysbeth in a low voice; "I am faint, I am ill." Ill she was indeed, and before morning there, in that lonely hovel on the island of the mere, a son was born to her. When she was strong enough her nurse spoke: "Will you keep the brat, or shall I kill it?" she asked. "How can I kill my child?" said Lysbeth.
Miss Farwell went to Denny's side and together they managed, after a little, to calm the good woman. "It's a shame it is for me to be a-goin' on so, Miss Hope, but I but I " She nearly broke down again. "Won't you tell me the trouble, Mrs. Mulhall?" urged the nurse. "Perhaps I can help you."
As he examined his patient, the nurse picked up the journal and began to glance quickly from column to column in order to have absorbed the news by the time the doctor wanted her services or his paper. Suddenly, not being possessed of great self-control except in professional emergencies, she gave vent to a shrill little squeak of excitement.
I am thankful that I Had the experience: not only to have been of actual service, indispensable, as every good nurse was, but to have been a part of that colossal drama. But I am even more thankful that it is over and if I can possibly avoid it I'll never nurse again." "I suppose you have had no time to write?" "I should think not!
"Knocked in the head as I came down to the wharf. Serves me right for being asleep at the switch. Think I'll run down to my room and wash the blood off." Yeager offered to examine the wound. He had had some experience in broken heads among the boys at his ranch, he said. "Perhaps I could dress the hurt. I had a year's training as a nurse," suggested Miss Wallace, a little shyly. "Mr.
Gwendolyn wondered just who the young nurse was. She opened her lips to ask; then saw how painfully her mother had colored at the mere mention of the person in question, and so kept silence. The Doctor gone, her father came to her mother's side and patted a shoulder. "Well, we shan't ever say anything more about that bee," he declared, laughing, yet serious enough. "Shall we, Gwendolyn!" "No."
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