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Its great Dining Hall is a splendid Receiving Ward for the sorting-out and clearance of newly-arrived convoys of patients. We should be poorly situated indeed if we had not our Scottish baronial main building to be the hub of the hospital's activities, or rather the handle from which springs the fan of the hospital's great extension the huts.
But I want my friends to succeed! Their coming upon Westminster Bridge changed the theme. Victor wished the Houses of Parliament to catch the beams of sunset. He deferred to the suggestion, that the Hospital's doing so seemed appropriate. 'I'm always pleased to find a decent reason for what is, he said. Then he queried: 'But what is, if we look at it, and while we look, Simeon?
The Carbrook Hospital it has another name in the annual reports, but this will identify it sufficiently for our purposes spread itself all over the compound and beyond in its welcome to J.W. Joe and Marcia were first, and joyfullest. The school turned out to the last scholar, and even the hospital's "walking cases" insisted on having a share in the welcome to the foreign doctor's friend.
"She didn't leave it," he answered. "It left her. The Hospital's scat." "Eh?" "Bust sold up come to an end. Scougall's retired on the donations. He feathered his nest. And Miss Plinlimmon's gone down into Cornwall to live with a Major Brooks a kind of relation of hers, so far as I can make out. They tell me she've come into money." I had a question on my lips, but Mr. Jope interrupted.
"Is he dead?" she asked the trooper who was driving. "No, miss. Will you take him in?" "Yes," she said. "Bring him." The driver drew rein, wheeled his team, and drove into the great gateway. "Hospital's plum full, ma'am," he said. "Wait; I'll carry him up. Head's bust a leetle that's all. A day's nussin' will bring him into camp again."
McIntyre. "He was so obliging as to save me the trouble." Average Jones held up the letter from which he had taken the Cairnside Hospital's telephone number. "The advertisement worked to a charm. Mr. Smith gives his address in this, and intimates that I may call upon him." Young Mr. McIntyre rose. "You're going to see him, then?" "At once."
I followed Mlle. Thompson up the winding stair and was shown the dormitories, the walls decorated as gaily as if for a bride, but otherwise of a severe if comfortable simplicity. Every cot was as neat as a new hospital's in the second year of the war, and there was an immense lavatory on each floor. Then I was shown the quarters destined for me if I would so far condescend, etc.
And indeed it's better than I thought. She's not going to banish me altogether. When this new hospital's open in another month or so and she's settled there she asks me to call upon her. She wants me to go into this man's treatment. There was a touch of comedy in the words; but the emotion in his face was painful to see. 'Good! said Hester, smiling.
I will therefore show you immediately to your quarters." "This will be your field of labor," he said, as he led her down the long aisle between rows of cots toward her room. "It's not a cheerful one to contemplate at first. Human suffering is always a depressing spectacle, and you will see here more of it and more varied agony than you can find anywhere outside of an army hospital's walls.
Well, don't you stay here, bringin' diseases. A hospital's the true place fer the sick, she says. "I went back to Mis' Loneway, an' I guess I lied some. I said the kid was sick had the croup, I thought, an' she'd hev to wait. Her face fell, but she said 'all right an' please not to say nothin', an' then I went out an' done my best to borrow a kid for her.
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