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Updated: June 15, 2025
The applicant looked again toward the pavilion, where Billy Grant, having kissed the Nurse's hands, had buried his face in her two palms. The mild October sun shone down on the courtyard, with its bandaged figures in wheel-chairs, its cripples sunning on a bench, their crutches beside them, its waterless fountain and dingy birds.
Hamil smiled, recognising in the name the most outrageously expensive of New York florists who had made a fortune in cut flowers. "Have a drink?" persisted Mr. Rawley. "No? Too early for you? Well, let's get a couple of niggers and wheel-chairs."
She went with me both in wheel-chairs to a ball at the Kursaal, and looked so pretty in an airy, white dress which her mother and sister had arranged for their darling, that I should have longed to dance with her had not this pleasure been denied me. Hirsau had first been suggested as a resting-place, but it was doubtful whether we should find what we needed there.
He turned a little and ran his eyes along the line of nurses. Ah, there she was. As if she were conscious of his scrutiny, she lifted her head and glanced toward him. Swift color flooded her face. The nurses sang: "O holy Child of Bethlehem! Descend to us, we pray; Cast out our sin, and enter in, Be born in us to-day." The wheel-chairs and convalescents quavered the familiar words. Dr.
Some time I mean to know the old deacon better, so as to get posted on his vast store of knowledge along those lines." "His wife is rather feeble now," continued Thad. "She's a fine old lady though, and as cheery as can be, considering all things." "But if, as you said, she has to move around in one of those self-propelling wheel-chairs, how does she ever get her house-work done, Thad?"
Soon the ward is made perilous by wheel-chairs, in which unskilful pilots steer themselves out into the green adventure of the garden. Birds are singing out there; the guns had done for the birds in the places where we came from. Through open doors we can see the glow of flowers, dew-laden and sparkling, lazily unfolding their petals in the early sun.
She went with me both in wheel-chairs to a ball at the Kursaal, and looked so pretty in an airy, white dress which her mother and sister had arranged for their darling, that I should have longed to dance with her had not this pleasure been denied me. Hirsau had first been suggested as a resting-place, but it was doubtful whether we should find what we needed there.
In the garden others taking the sunshine, some with their wheel-chairs pushed through the shrubbery close to the high iron fence, to be petted by nurse-maids and children as if they were animals in a sort of zoo.
Seated in one of those invalid wheel-chairs, which can be so easily manipulated by the occupant, after becoming expert at the job, was a most benign-looking and motherly old lady, with snow-white hair, and a face that was one of the sweetest and most patient Hugh had ever gazed upon. He knew instantly that he was going to like Mrs. Winslow just as much as he did her big husband.
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