The Fruit of the Tree (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440088497 ISBN 13: 9781440088490

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2010

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As she leaned over, he lifted his anxious bewildered eyes, deep-sunk under ridges of suffering. I don't s'pose there's any kind of a show for me, is there? He asked, pointing with his free hand - the stained seamed hand of the mechanic - to the inert bundle on the quilt.

Her only immediate answer was to wipe the damp ness from his forehead; then she said: We'll talk about that to-morrow.

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T JTE FRUIT OF THE THEE I IN the surgical ward of the Hope Hospital at Ilan-aford, a nurse was bending over a young man whose bandaged right hand and ann lay stretched along the bed. His head stirred uneasily, and slipping her arm behind him she effected a professional readjustment of the pillows. "Is that better?" As she leaned over, he lifted his anxious bewildered eyes, deep-sunk under ridges of suffering. "I don't s'pose there's any kind of a show for me, is there?" he asked, pointing with his free hand-the stained seamed hand of the mechanic-to the inert bundle on the quilt. IIct only immediate answer was to wipe the dampness from his forehead; then she said: "We'll talk about tliat to-morrow." "Why not now?" "Because Dr. Disbrow can't tell till the inflammation goes down." "Will it go down by to-morrow?" "It will begin to, if you don't excite yourself and keep up the fever." I 3]

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1440088497
• ISBN 13: 9781440088490
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 656