Nurse Elisia
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Fenn George Manville. Nurse Elisia
Chapter One. The Elthornes
Chapter Two. Nurse Elisia
Chapter Three. Neil at Home
Chapter Four. The New Horse
Chapter Five. Need of a Surgeon
Chapter Six. Watching the Sufferer
Chapter Seven “Join your Ship at once.”
Chapter Eight. Conflicting Emotions
Chapter Nine. Off to Hightoft
Chapter Ten. Neil is Perplexed
Chapter Eleven. Awkward Encounters
Chapter Twelve. Maria is Venomous
Chapter Thirteen. Aunt Anne’s Resolutions
Chapter Fourteen. A Suspicious Patient
Chapter Fifteen. A Tempting Offer
Chapter Sixteen. How Elisia became a Nurse
Chapter Seventeen “You Insult Me!”
Chapter Eighteen. A Sore Little Heart
Chapter Nineteen. Maria Causes Trouble
Chapter Twenty “Very Bad News.”
Chapter Twenty One. A Forced Confession
Chapter Twenty Two “The Woman is a Witch.”
Chapter Twenty Three. Discussing the Past
Chapter Twenty Four. Aunt Anne Harassed
Chapter Twenty Five. A Counterplot
Chapter Twenty Six. Neil Breaks his Promise
Chapter Twenty Seven. Maria’s Deceptive Message
Chapter Twenty Eight. Sir Cheltnam Exposed
Chapter Twenty Nine. Jumping at Conclusions
Chapter Thirty. Sir Denton Astonished
Chapter Thirty One. The Clouds Dispelled
Chapter Thirty Two. Peace at Hightoft
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The roar of the big road sounded plainly, but it was far enough off for it to be subdued into a mellow hum, suggestive to the country sufferer lying in the narrow bed with its clean linen and neat blue checked hangings by the open window, of bees swarming, and a threshing machine at work in the farm beyond the park.
And yet it was London, for the windows were coated with a sooty layer outside, and the sun shone as if Nature were afraid its beams would be too strong for Londoners’ eyes, to which it came as in an eclipse through smoked glass, and a murky haze full of germs and motes was interposed between the dwellers in the city and the blue sky above.
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“With me, Sir Denton?” said the nurse, with the blood flushing up at once into her pale cheeks.
“Yes,” he said, watching her keenly. “Proof positive. The colour flooded your face directly I spoke. You are as nervous as if you had been ill.”
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