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408 AN HOUR IN THE HOSPITAL.
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LVXXL—AN HOTTB, IN THE HOSPITAL.
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"The sick are in a better case than the ...
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I^» I——I Have Passed My Life As A Dressm...
Susan was ever our favorite theme . In time lie became a wealthy manMs talents gaining him a partnershi . But he never left the
, p humble house in Lamb Street , or married , though I have crediblyheard that more than , one handsome lady had hinted he would not be
repulsed . No one -who had been kind to his Susan did he ever forget , not even ; the cousin who had given her the wedding * bouquet . After an
honored life , he slept at last in her grave . I have often thought of the glad meeting" awaiting that constant heart in another world , !
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408 An Hour In The Hospital.
408 AN HOUR IN THE _HOSPITAL .
Lvxxl—An Hottb, In The Hospital.
LVXXL—AN HOTTB , IN THE HOSPITAL .
"The Sick Are In A Better Case Than The ...
" The sick are in a better case than the whole . "——Hekbe : rt .
_One of my class at the Sunday School having been an inmate of the General Hospital for some weeks , I determined to pay her a
visit , and my sister accompanied me . Ann has a younger sister in my class also , and she had told me the visiting * hours—two to four
on Sundays and Thursdays—and the forbidden things which she supposed I should be likely to take in , if not prevented ; another
girl volunteering the information that her brother was " welly clammed at the Hospital ; they would not let them take pastry , nor
sucksnor _nothin' as was nice . " I understood tea , sugar , and but-, ter were admissible , but , fearful-of transgressing rules , I ventured
upon nothing eatable , and only bought a cheap Bible and some prettlittle books . The oneexperience had taught me to be the
only y solace in real affliction , , the other I hoped -would prove a slight relief from what I had always believed to be the severity and
monotony of hospital life . After the noise and bustle of the street there was something
quieting arid far from dismal in the bit of lawn and gravel , and the rather handsome though dingy face of the gray substantial building ,
as we passed _^ o their throug comfortable h the outer lat e door dinners . Two no doctors doubt , were and would just driving soon
forget away , the subdued or passionate cries of the poor suffering fellowcreatures on whom they had been operating , in home scenes of very
different character ; but surely how thoughtful must such a pursuit make a man—a man , not a butcher .
Crowds of people are pouring in to see their sick friends , most of them with baskets or small parcels , of which they will presently be
eased by the portly lady just waiting to welcome them , into a little side room for the purpose of searching their pockets ; It is
marchose vellousl d y declarer like the " in Dduane anything _* but she s ays ectionable her iCAvez way vous , smiling quelque as
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/48/
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