“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.”
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The White Linen Nurse
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was an American author born on September 22, 1872, and died on June 4, 1958. Known for her delicate emotions and profound insights, her works mainly focused on women's lives and family relationships in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more
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