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Macgowan often looked back to this morning, and thought, with the sort of shudder with which one looks back on a danger barely escaped: "Good God! what if I had let that woman go?" All Hetty's native traits especially adapted her to the profession of nursing; and her superb physical health was of itself a blessing to every sick man or sick woman with whom she came in contact.
Father Antoine exclaimed, "A grand vocation! Ah! if we but had her in our convent!" "You'll never get her there as long as I'm alive, Father Antoine!" Dr. Macgowan had replied. "You may count upon that." When Dr. Macgowan said to Hetty: "You do not look as if you had ever had any very hard trouble of any kind," Hetty looked in his face eagerly, and answered: "Do I not, really?
"You do not look as if you had ever had any very hard trouble of any kind," said the doctor in a light tone, but watching keenly the effect of his words. Dr. Macgowan was beginning to be tormented by a great desire to know more in regard to his new nurse. Father Antoine's guarded replies to all his inquiries about her had only stimulated his curiosity. "She is a good woman.
To be sure, in Miss Murfree's novels, as in those of John Fox, Jr., and of Alice MacGowan, we do meet characters more genial than feudists and illicit distillers; none the less, when we have closed the book, who is it that stands out clearest as type and pattern of the mountaineer? Is it not he of the long rifle and peremptory challenge? The Southern highlands themselves are a mysterious realm.
For our information respecting the uses of the tallow-tree, we express our chief obligations to a paper by Dr D. J. Macgowan, published in the Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India.
Father Antoine exclaimed, "A grand vocation! Ah! if we but had her in our convent!" "You'll never get her there as long as I'm alive, Father Antoine!" Dr. Macgowan had replied. "You may count upon that." When Dr. Macgowan said to Hetty: "You do not look as if you had ever had any very hard trouble of any kind," Hetty looked in his face eagerly, and answered: "Do I not, really?
With regard to the uses of the vegetable tallow, Dr Macgowan observes: 'Artificial illumination in China is generally procured by vegetable oils, but candles are also employed.... In religious ceremonies, no other material is used. As no one ventures out after dark without a lantern, and as the gods cannot be acceptably worshipped without candles, the quantity consumed is very great.
He says that she hath for ten years borne a name other than his; that in her own country she hath been ten years mourned for as dead; that he hath by process of law, on account of her death, inherited and sold all the estate that she did own." "Rich, was she rich!" interrupted Dr. Macgowan.
Hetty had given him permission to tell all the facts to Dr. Macgowan, under the strictest pledges of secrecy. "'Pon my word! 'pon my word!" said the doctor, "the most extraordinary thing I ever heard of! Who'd have thought that calm, clearheaded woman would ever have committed such a folly?
D. J. MacGowan, "are formed owing to the withholding interment from children who die in infancy." And he adds that "opinions of careful observers will be found to vary with fields of observation."
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