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Young-Adult

1906

No Friend Like a Sister


Rosa Nouchette Carey - 1906
    You will find the accommodation of the house nurses is equally comfortable. If you remember, Edith, I told you at Guy's that St. Monica's Nursing Home was to be a sort of pattern and object-lesson for other Homes. I prefer to take fewer patients and fewer nurses, and make it practically a Home." Then a faint protesting shrug prefaced Miss Holds worth's reply. 'you are a very complex person, Frances; I have often told you so. You are intensely practical; but there is an underlying vein of romance and softness in your nature that gets the mastery sometimes. Well, ' with a little break in her voice, 'it is a beautiful Home, and a grand work, and I wish it all success.' And then the two women grasped hands in full understanding and sympathy."