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To think that for nineteen months in this maelstrom of war from every quarter, the buildings have never been hit and these quiet nuns have gone about tend- ing sick and wounded, daily holding their matins and vespers, seems to me a modern miracle, [87] A SUNNY SUBALTERN "O, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou! — " As I've lain here the force of those lines comes home more and more. You know I've always sa...id a nurse had a halo around her head, well, here there's nothing but males, mere male orderlies, and oh, for the touch of woman's hand. I know that if there was a woman, were she princess or charwoman, that your beef tea would at least be warm and have salt in it, and there would be no sticky sediment in the bottom of the cup. That, and a hundred other things I could recount, betoken the lack of the touch feminine. However, I've no de- sire to disparage the work of the dirty, clumsy hands which ministered unto me, for they are the boys who in their turn go up into the line and carry back the wounded.
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