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Updated: May 9, 2025
He passed her sneering: "A precious superior lot you lady-nurses think yourselves, I dare say. I'd sooner have one old gamp than the whole boiling of you!" Marcella eyed him sternly, her nostrils tightening. "Will you go?" she said. He gave her a furious glance, and plunged down the stairs outside, breathing threats. Marcella put her hand to her head a moment, and drew a long breath.
The last night that I ever saw my dear father he spoke to me on this subject. He used to hate lady-nurses, but you won him over, Dorothy, and he said, if the time came, I could go with his blessing." "Then surely that settles the matter," exclaimed Dorothy. "I'll speak to Mrs. Staunton before I leave to-day." "Oh, no; don't! Mother seems quite happy and comfortable.
"Oh, one of the Fraser girls," said the woman, in a tone of contempt "those newcomers, who have not been settled in the place above a year. For my part, I don't hold with lady-nurses. I am told they are all stuck-up and full of airs, and that they need a sight more waiting on than the patients themselves.
The principal singer was a young lady-nurse of one of the wards, accompanying on a melodeon, and join'd by the lady-nurses of other wards. They sat there, making a charming group, with their handsome, healthy faces, and standing up a little behind them were some ten or fifteen of the convalescent soldiers, young men, nurses, &c., with books in their hands, singing.
I don't know what the future has in it it is impossible for any of us to know the future, and I say, thank God for the blessed curtain which hides it from our view; but whatever it has in it, my child, I wish you to understand that you are to do your best with your life. Make it full if you can in any case make it blessed. A month ago, I will admit frankly, I did not approve of lady-nurses.
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