George Manville Fenn

Name: Nurse Elisia
Author: George Manville Fenn

Nurse Elisia

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“Nurse Elisia”, is a work by George Manville Fenn. It explores elements such as Neil, Elisia and Elthorne.

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George Manville Fenn, Nurse Elisia

“ Mr Alison has been making up to that nurse!”
“You won’t tell on me, miss?” whispered Maria, in whose palm the ring seemed to burn as if the chaste, pale pearls were fiery rubies.
“No; I’ll hold you safe.”
“Then it is true, miss. He’s always after her, and has been ever since she came.”
“You lying hussy!” cried Saxa hotly. “If I were my sister I’d lash you with my riding whip—I mean shake you till you went down on your knees and owned it was out of spite.”
“Lying hussy, am I?” cried Maria viciously, “when every word’s true, and that isn’t all, miss; Mr Neil’s as bad or worse.” ”

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George Manville Fenn, Nurse Elisia

“ Maria tightened her lips as if to condense her spleen against the patient, long-suffering woman who had had the misfortune to incur her dislike.
“A thing like her!” she continued muttering. “A beggarly nurse, with not so much as a box of her own to bring down when she comes into a gentleman’s house, and giving herself airs as if she was a lady. Oh, dear me, and indeed! Couldn’t stoop to talk to a poor girl as if she was a fellow-creature, at the hospital; and down here, lor’ bless us! anyone would think she was a duchess up in the skies instead of a common hospital nurse. ”

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George Manville Fenn, Nurse Elisia

“ Neil felt moved to say, as he saw the questioning look.
“What?” cried Mr Elthorne, turning his eyes fiercely upon his son. “There is, nurse, and that is why I summoned you. Look here, Neil; my body may be half dead, but my head is clear. I am not imbecile yet, and I will not be treated like a child. It is hard, very hard, that even one’s own son sinks his relationship in the professional man, and forgets that he is dealing with his father, who has become to him only a patient.”
“My dear father!” cried Neil, smiling, “are you not a little hard on me?” ”

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George Manville Fenn, Nurse Elisia

“ I am going to play the man,” cried Beck. “Isabel and I have been girl and boy together, and our affection has gradually strengthened till I know that she loves me as well as I love her.”
“Yes, perhaps so, my lad, but you heard her father’s decision, and you can do no more.”
“Yes; I heard his decision,” said the young sailor sturdily, “and I am not going to stand by and see her given up to that man! Why, Neil, it would kill her.”
“Look here, Tom, my good fellow, you must be sensible. It would be no kindness to my sister to let her feel that she had ruined your prospects.” ”

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George Manville Fenn, Nurse Elisia

“ The old man was talking eagerly to the nurse, whose back was toward Neil, and there was a glow of satisfaction in the young surgeon’s heart as he owned to himself that it was almost entirely Elisia’s work, her devotion to his father, which had wrought this change.
The group, too, at which he gazed pleased his eye: the invalid looking up, full of trust, in his graceful attendant’s face; and the crushed-down love in Neil’s breast began to revive again, as he thought that if he could win her his father would be ready to take her as a daughter to his heart. ”

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George Manville Fenn, Nurse Elisia

“ For Alison’s words had started a current of thought which soon startled him by its intensity, as it raised up the calm, pale face of one who had constantly been at his side in cases of emergency—one who was always tenderly sensitive and ready to suffer with those who suffered, whose voice had a sweet, sympathetic ring as she spoke words of encouragement or consolation to the agony-wrung patient, but who could be firm as a rock at times, when a sufferer’s life depended upon the strength of mind and nerve of the attendant. ”

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George Manville Fenn, Nurse Elisia

“ Good-looking servants always know it, and give themselves airs.”
“But this lady is not a servant, Aunt.”
“Don’t talk nonsense, Isabel,” said Aunt Anne tartly. “She is a servant, and she is not a lady. I can’t help it, my dear; I don’t like her at all, and I hope she will prove to be so dissatisfied, when she finds what she has to do, that she will want to go back to town at once. There’s too much of the fine madam about her for me.”
“Sir Denton would not have sent down a person who was not quite suitable, Aunt,” said Isabel gravely. “If she nurses poor papa well that is all we want.” ”

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George Manville Fenn, Nurse Elisia

“ What of him?”
“Mr Alison Elthorne has followed me from the day I came, sir, and proffered his love.”
“And you have turned a deaf ear to him as well?”
“Of course, sir,” she said coldly.
“And he, too, has given up, I suppose?”
“No, sir.”
“It is no more than I expected from such a woman as you, nurse,” said Elthorne, after another pause. “But there is a reason for all this. Forgive me: it is an old and broken man who speaks; there must be a reason.”
“Yes, Mr Elthorne,” she said, and her clear musical voice seemed to fill the room; “there is a reason—a good reason—for all this.” ”

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