Modern Broods; Or, Developments Unlooked ForYonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
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Modern Broods; Or, Developments Unlooked For
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
Domestic fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; English fiction
Wilfred lies on the good Preventive woman’s bed, clean and fairly
comfortable, and they have made a shake-down in their parlour for Nag
and me. The Bishop _says_ he is well off, but I believe he is always
looking after the mate and the other man in the other house, and
sleeps, if at all, in a chair. Nag is _the_ nurse. She had
ambulance lessons, you know, when at the High School, and profited by
them more than I ever did, and Wilfred likes to have her about him,
and when he is dazed, as he always is at first waking, he calls her
Vera. But don’t be uneasy about him, dear Aunt Lily. Deadly
sea-sickness, a night of tossing and cold, and then this terrible
landing may well upset him, and probably he will be on his legs by
the time you get this letter.
“I find our disaster was on the Maiden Rocks, a horrible group, I
only wonder that any one gets past them. There are five of them, the
wicked Sirens, and three have lighthouses, but not very efficient
ones, and apt to disappear in the fog, and there are reefs beneath on
one of which we came to grief. The folk here think a wreck on these
Maidens absolutely fatal, so we cannot be but most thankful for being
alive, though it is a worse experience than the Rotuma earthquake.
“Fergus would think the place worth all we have undergone. The crags
are wonderful, chalk at the bottom, basalt above, and of course all
round to the Giant’s Causeway it is finer still. Well may we, as the
Bishop is always doing, give thanks that we were taken, by the Divine
Hand guiding tide and current, to this milder and less inhospitable
opening.
“We can afford to dispense with less majesty, for one of those finer
cliffs would have been our destruction.
“This is going to Larne, where there is a railway station and
something of a town, and the Bishop has written to the doctor of the
place. I will write again when he has been here. I hope to send you
another and more cheery account to-morrow, or whenever post goes.
“Nag is writing to her sister. I trust you will have heard of
Bernard and Angela. Their boat was a better one than ours, and
certainly got off safely. Let us know as soon you can.
“Your most loving niece,
“D. M. MOHUN.”
Agatha had also written to Magdalen, very briefly, to assure her of her
safety and thankfulness, and to say she could not leave Wilfred till more
efficient care arrived, or till she had means to come back with. She was
evidently too busy over her patient to have much possibility of writing,
even if she had paper, which seemed to be scarce at Corncastle.
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