ISBN: 9781150745379

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION. Dr. Reichardt''s hospital was only a small one in a little village some distance from Versailles, but near the front of the Prussian lines. When he reached here, after his visit to Germany, he was met with the news that another great sortie from Paris was expected; and already the ambulance carriages had been prepared to start on their errand of mercy. The doctor asked eagerly what troops were likely to be engaged, and seemed greatly agitated when he heard that some were coming from the head-quarters of the Crown Prince at Versailles. This news quite disarranged all his plans, and he hardly knew what to do about telling Thekla of the wonderful tidings that had been sent to Elberfeld concerning Conrad; for if he were engaged in this coming battle, and was killed, it would only be opening afresh the scarcely healed wounds in the poor girl''s heart, and so, after a few minutes'' consideration, he decided not to give her the letter at present. After the battle, he would make inquiry, and ascertain the fate of Conrad; and if he survived the action, he could then inform Thekla of all the circumstances without danger. But Thekla''s first question, when she saw him, was-- Have you any letters for me, Dr. Reichardt? I have brought a chest of linen for you, Fraulein, and some more lint and bandages, said the doctor, evasively. Clean linen--a sufficiency at hand to secure this--was a luxury quite indispensable, and yet so difficult to obtain in a field-hospital where, at any time, there might be a great influx of patients, that none, perhaps, but those situated as Thekla had often been, could estimate the value of such a gift as that of her sister at a time like the present, when gifts of the kind were becoming rarer every... Emma Leslie, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Elsie's Dowry Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: E. Marlborough<

ISBN: 9781150745379

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION. Dr. Reichardt''s hospital was only a small one in a little village some distance from Versailles, but near the front of the Prussian lines. When he reached here, after his visit to Germany, he was met with the news that another great sortie from Paris was expected; and already the ambulance carriages had been prepared to start on their errand of mercy. The doctor asked eagerly what troops were likely to be engaged, and seemed greatly agitated when he heard that some were coming from the head-quarters of the Crown Prince at Versailles. This news quite disarranged all his plans, and he hardly knew what to do about telling Thekla of the wonderful tidings that had been sent to Elberfeld concerning Conrad; for if he were engaged in this coming battle, and was killed, it would only be opening afresh the scarcely healed wounds in the poor girl''s heart, and so, after a few minutes'' consideration, he decided not to give her the letter at present. After the battle, he would make inquiry, and ascertain the fate of Conrad; and if he survived the action, he could then inform Thekla of all the circumstances without danger. But Thekla''s first question, when she saw him, was-- Have you any letters for me, Dr. Reichardt? I have brought a chest of linen for you, Fraulein, and some more lint and bandages, said the doctor, evasively. Clean linen--a sufficiency at hand to secure this--was a luxury quite indispensable, and yet so difficult to obtain in a field-hospital where, at any time, there might be a great influx of patients, that none, perhaps, but those situated as Thekla had often been, could estimate the value of such a gift as that of her sister at a time like the present, when gifts of the kind were becoming rarer every... Emma Leslie, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Elsie's Dowry Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<