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However, he laughed to scorn any attempt to restrain his constant goings and comings, or those hours of night-nursing, in which, as the hospital nurses were the first to admit, no one was so successful as the rector.
The good woman had long since given up night-nursing, and the few patrons dependent upon her during the day had had to be content with an "exchange," which she generally managed to obtain, there being one or two of the fraternity on whom she could call. And these days, in spite of the sorrow hovering over her charge, Martha never found wholly unhappy.
However, he laughed to scorn any attempt to restrain his constant goings and comings, or those hours of night-nursing, in which, as the hospital nurses were the first to admit, no one was so successful as the Rector.
She was in the wide world now with a vengeance. Did it look as fair, as rose-colored, as fascinating, as it used to look in her early dreams? No; the reality was bitter enough. She would have given a great deal at that heavy moment of her life to turn back the page and be a child at home again. The nurses' bell rang, and she got up quickly. Next week she was to take her turn at night-nursing.
It is a very rare thing for us to undertake night-nursing at all." "Can you tell me what the case was?" She told him vaguely, describing also in a few words her encounter with Dr. Blank. "I suppose he will make a fuss," she said, with a restless look, "and that I shall be blamed." "I should think your second doctor will take care of that!" said Hallin. "I don't know. I couldn't help it.
But look here, Lady Evesham, you must have a nurse." "Oh, not yet!" said Avery. "I am quite strong now. I am used to nursing. I have no other call upon me. Let me do this!" "None?" he said. His tone re-called her. She coloured burningly. "My husband would understand," she said, with difficulty. He passed the matter by. "Will you promise to send me a message if you find night-nursing a necessity?"
Alice and I had made up our minds you had forgotten us!" "I didn't get home till four, and then I had to have a sleep," she explained, half shyly. "What! you haven't been night-nursing?" "Yes, for once." "Alice, tell them to bring up supper, and let's look after her."
Bronte was the same patient, cheerful person as we have seen her formerly; very ill, suffering great pain, but seldom if ever complaining; at her better times begging her nurse to raise her in bed to let her see her clean the grate, "because she did it as it was done in Cornwall;" devotedly fond of her husband, who warmly repaid her affection, and suffered no one else to take the night-nursing; but, according to my informant, the mother was not very anxious to see much of her children, probably because the sight of them, knowing how soon they were to be left motherless, would have agitated her too much.
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