Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II A RAILROAD ACCIDENT AND WHAT CAME OF IT A SUBDUED light reigned in the hospital ward. The two rows of white beds could be but dimly discerned amid the shadows, while in the centre of the room at a table the figure of a whiteclad nurse was clearly seen in the glow of a shaded electric light. She was writing, but her busy pen did not keep her mind preoccupied and at the slightest sound she would glance up quickly, noticing the movement of any patient in the long line of sleepers. When she did so, the light that had shone only on spotless cap and apron, caught the outline of her face and shone in the warm tints of her hair, making a pretty picture of this graceful and womanly figure. Muriel Morris, head nurse of Ward 7, was not the care-free, lovely girl whom we found listening to the lark songs on the wind-blown cliffs of a far English village. The strong, supple figure was the same, but with perhaps an added touch of conscious strength. The hair, where it escaped from the white cap, showed as much desire to curl and even in this light revealed its Rembrandt tints, but the face was changed, so changed, in its lines and expressions that one who had known her five years before would have asked whether this were not an elder sister by whom the stronger traits of some old ancestor had been inherited. The mouth was firm almost to sternness when the features were in repose; the eyes that seemed larger, perhaps, because the face was thinner than of yore, were very steady and intense in their concentration. It was only as she smiled that one could catch a hint of the old merry twinkle that had been so characteristic of the joyous girl, whose pet name had so well described her. Now one would hardly dream of shortening her name to the playful diminution. ...
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