Loukis Laras : Reminiscences of a Chiote Merchant During the War of Independence
Loukis Laras : Reminiscences of a Chiote Merchant During the War of Independence
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The good housewives of our neighbourhood were amazed to see a man — contrary to all the usages of the island — stoop to such feminine work, and their thoughts were betrayed by the contemptuous smiles with which they accompanied their obliging offers of assist- ance.
Fortunately, the illness of my mother and sisters was but the temporary result of moral and physical prostration, and in a few days they one after the other left their beds. But my father was not destined to recover. I cannot say wh...at was his illness. The so- called doctor whom we had recourse to, as LOUKIS LARAS. 147 soon as we began to be seriously alarmed, declared he was suffering from heart disease, and promised to cure him.
But evidently he did not know what he was about, and I doubt if he had ever set foot in a medical school of any kind He was an old Maltese, who for many years past had exercised, not for humanity's sake alone, the calling of itinerant physician in many a Levantine city. At that time any Frank easily passed muster as a " doctor, " and God only knows in what circumstances his Excellency was improvised into a physician.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The good housewives of our neighbourhood were amazed to see a man — contrary to all the usages of the island — stoop to such feminine work, and their thoughts were betrayed by the contemptuous smiles with which they accompanied their obliging offers of assist- ance.
Fortunately, the illness of my mother and sisters was but the temporary result of moral and physical prostration, and in a few days they one after the other left their beds. But my father was not destined to recover. I cannot say wh...at was his illness. The so- called doctor whom we had recourse to, as LOUKIS LARAS. 147 soon as we began to be seriously alarmed, declared he was suffering from heart disease, and promised to cure him.
But evidently he did not know what he was about, and I doubt if he had ever set foot in a medical school of any kind He was an old Maltese, who for many years past had exercised, not for humanity's sake alone, the calling of itinerant physician in many a Levantine city. At that time any Frank easily passed muster as a " doctor, " and God only knows in what circumstances his Excellency was improvised into a physician.
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