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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... wood saved us all. Clothilde simply had to laugh when H patted her nice dry wood and said: Now you know, Clothilde, that's tres beaucoup (H pronounces it trays bowcups always, just to be funny) and it was too much for Clothilde; she broke into a giggle. This morning I helped with the baths. Six at a time get their scrubbings, first tub and then shower. I drew Jacques-Henri, eight years old, from St. Quentin, father a prisoner, mother missing. Jacques has a bad heart and he is the strangest blue color--it is most difficult to determine when he is clean. This afternoon the ambulance went to the next village to get Albert's mother. She arrived from Evian at noon, and in the dark and the storm it was difficult to find her, but about five o'clock Burns came back triumphant with the poor frightened mother. She herself has been sick in Evian with the four other children. She looked haggard and worn and when she stood by the little bed she said nothing. Great tears rolled down her face; she patted the covers, but did nothing more. The nurse was working over Albert, his big dark eyes looking up at her without a gleam of recognition. In such moments I long to have you share, not the hardships of the life here, for there are many--cold for instance. The furnace broke down for our side of the chateau over a week ago and the cold has been terrible and some are suffering badly from chilblains; the wards are warm and the dining-room, but that is all. It will be three weeks before the damage is repaired, and in the meantime water-pipes are freezing. No, I don't want you even to think of the hardships, but I long to have you see some of the service given by the beloved A. R. C. you work so hard for at home. That scene in Albert's room--the warm, beautiful room, ...

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