Sister Dora : a biography / by Margaret Lonsdale.

  • Lonsdale, Margaret
Date:
1895
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Credit: Sister Dora : a biography / by Margaret Lonsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■wounds as he lay in the hall, thinking that, if he were not dead, he would be in a few minutes, and it was not worth moving him. But as she finished, he began to breathe again with a gasp, and now he is hkely to get well. It was curious to see how completely she had taken him under her protection, and was disposed to throw the cliief blame on the girl who had jilted him. Bhe is doing well, so it is not so horrible as it might have been. He is watched day and night by a policeman, and Sister Dora is so careful of his feelings, that she begs the superintendent to send them (the police) in plain clothes, and not to send again one who had not been very civil to him. He has borne an excellent character hitherto, poor man, and the stronger he grows, the more miserable he is. She told us how she had warned the other patients against gossiping about it in his presence, and smuggled away the newspapers, and coaxed away the policeman, that she might get him to herself for a whUe. There is quite a competition among the policemen for the hospital post. And before we had done laughing at her description of the policeman's behaviour, and of all her expedients for keeping the poor man quiet in body and mind, she burst out with a story one of the police had told her, and shed tears in telling of some deserted children who had been found almost starved in a lonely house with their dead mother. Then came a story of a child who
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