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The White Linen Nurse
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Title: The White Linen Nurse
Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Release Date: December 29, 2004 [EBook #14506]
Language: English
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The White Linen Nurse
By Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Author of "Molly Make-Believe," "The Sick-a-Bed Lady," etc., etc.
1913
TO MAURICE HOWE RICHARDSON
WHO LOVED ROMANCE ALMOST AS MUCH AS HE LOVED SURGERY, THIS LITTLE STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED IN TOKEN OF TWO PERSONS' UNFADING MEMORIES
THE WHITE LINEN NURSE
CHAPTER I
The White Linen Nurse was so tired that her noble expression ached.
Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapacitated except her noble expression. Like a strip of lip-colored lead suspended from her poor little nose by two tugging wire-gray wrinkles her persistently conscientious sickroom smile seemed to be whanging aimlessly against her front teeth. The sensation certainly was very unpleasant.
Looking back thus on the three spine-curving, chest-cramping, foot-twinging, ether-scented years of her hospital