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So was I." "I'll give you a penny for yours!" Desire shook her head. "No? Then I'll give you mine for nothing. I was thinking what a pity it is that you are only an amateur nurse." "I hate nursing." "How unwomanly! Lots of women hate it but few admit it. However, it wasn't a nurse's duties I was thinking of, but a patient's privileges.
Why should remembering that you had done, and why you had done, the same kind of thing thirty years ago cure you of doing it now? Similarly, why should remembering that a nurse had scared you as an infant cure you of your present fear of burglars? In point of fact, it didn't. Mr. Cradock had tried this particular cure on Mrs. Hilary.
I have some business to attend to. I leave you in the care of Mrs. Barnes." "Shure, I'll take care of him, sir." "Is there anything I can do for you, Mr. Linden?" asked the new nurse, in a tone of sympathy. "Can you minister to a mind diseased?" "I'll take the best care of you, Mr. Linden, but it isn't as if you had a wife or daughter." "Ah, that is a sore thought!
At twenty minutes past eleven Angela heard the bell ring, and ran blithely down the now familiar staircase to open the garden door, outside which she found a middle-aged woman and a tall, sturdy young man, each carrying a bundle. These were the nurse and the watchman sent by Dr. Hodgkin. The woman gave Angela a slip of paper from the doctor, by way of introduction.
"Are you the comer?" quoth the King's daughter of Duntrine. "I am the comer," said he, "and these are the pipes that a man may hear, and I have power upon the hour, and this is the song of the morrow." And he piped the song of the morrow, and it was as long as years; and the nurse wept out aloud at the hearing of it.
The lungs we have got well in hand, but that blow on his temple makes an ugly complication." "Poor fellow. Is there nothing one can do?" "Let him alone, with your sweet daughter to nurse him. She is an angel, Captain Oliphant, if you'll excuse my saying so." "She knows, as we all do, how precious his life is. And how is your other patient?" "Armstrong? Practically well.
Her elephant was devoted to her, and sometimes Mary Ann made her nurse quite cross by smuggling the dear little thing up to bed with her and letting it go to sleep with its long trunk laid lovingly across her throat, and its pretty head cuddled under the Royal right ear.
She turned down the night-light and tiptoed out of the room. To-morrow she would move up here, even if she had to put the nurse in some other place, and henceforth she would never be separated from her child. He should stand between her and his father. She went to her rooms on the lower floor, but before undressing she stepped out on the broad terrace, which was now almost ready for the sod.
"I did, sore against the grain, but I accept the responsibility. You are pained, but you don't know what a good nurse means to a doctor." "Well?" "Well, he died after all, and the straiking is going on now. You saw her go in." "I think you could have been excused for breaking your word and turning her out."
There had been a summer vacation, the recollection of which made Madam and Nurse Nancy tremble; hence the serious expectation with which they are awaiting at the present moment the arrival of the children for the Christmas holidays.
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