Heroines That Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages
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Heroines That Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages
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But another form glides softly from that hovel; and amid the
pelting rain, and over the rough pit-bank, and through miry
clay--now ankle deep--takes her course to the dwellings of the
mourners, for some, spent with watching, have been induced to
return to their homes. As she plods her way amid pieces of
timber, upturned wagons and fragments of broken machinery, which
are scattered about in great confusion, a "wee, wee bairn"
creeps gently to her side, and grasping her hand and looking
wistfully into her face, which is radiant with kindness and
affection, says, "Oh, Sister, do see to my father when they
bring him up the pit." Poor child! Never again would he know a
father's love, or share a father's care. She smiled, and that
smile seemed to lighten the child's load of grief, and her
promise to see to his father appeared to impart consolation to
his heavy, despairing heart.
On she glides, with a kind word or a sympathetic expression to
all. One woman, after listening to her comforting words, burst
into tears--the fountains of sorrow so long pent up seemed to
have found vent. "Let her weep," said a relative of the
unfortunate woman; "it is the first tear she has shed since the
accident has occurred, and it will do her good to cry." But who
is the good Samaritan? She is the sister who for seven years has
had the management of the nursing department in the cottage
hospital at Walsall.
This is written in too much of the "special correspondent" style to be
pleasant; nevertheless it describes what actually took place.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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