Category: Adventure
Immediate preparations were made for our departure from the spot where we were. A couple of coarse handkerchiefs were tied across the lower part of our faces, so as to stifle our voices if we should uplift them on the remote chance of any one being in hearing who would assist...
Certainly nursing is very far superior, now-a-days, to what it was in the _régime_ of the untrained Sairey Gamp confraternity; but while gladly recognising that fact, I am incli...
9. CHAPTER IX.I daresay my readers will take it for granted that I adopted a fresh name when I went into Mrs. Torwood's service. So I most certainly _ought_ to have done after my previous for...
2. CHAPTER II.As I had no means of knowing the time, I cannot say exactly how long my slumbers lasted, but, as near as I can guess, it must have been about a couple of hours before I awoke. O...
1. CHAPTER I.Immediate preparations were made for our departure from the spot where we were. A couple of coarse handkerchiefs were tied across the lower part of our faces, so as to stifle ou...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Mrs. Torwood was lady-like, good-natured, indolent, rather foolish, easily-influenced, not difficult to get on with, and thinking more of her clothes, her appearance, and her do...
3. CHAPTER III.We had no means of knowing how far advanced the night might be, but we knew that our enemies intended to return early in the morning; we saw that the moon was waning, and we nat...
12. CHAPTER XII.My progress towards restored health was but slow; and poor I--an individual who had always regarded with mortal aversion confinement and monotony in every shape--was forced to u...
10. CHAPTER X.Evidently the first thing to be done when I was turned out of the Torwood's house was to find a habitation for myself somewhere else; and the search for a suitable lodging occup...
13. CHAPTER XIII.At last I was pronounced fit to be discharged from the hospital, and on the morrow I was to depart. I was still far from strong enough to think of undertaking any employment inv...
5. CHAPTER V.Of course Mrs. Rollin and Kitty had a deal of shopping to do in Paris; for to be in that town and not buy clothes is--to most feminine minds--an unpardonable sinning of one's me...
14. CHAPTER XIV.On leaving the hospital I straightway entered the situation as assistant newspaper-seller which Sister Helena had procured for me. I did not contemplate staying there long, beca...
6. CHAPTER VI.My fears lest Kitty's health might be affected by what had happened proved unfounded. By next morning she had got herself once more in hand, and I did not again see the expressi...
7. CHAPTER VII.When first cut adrift from Kitty, I felt disgusted with service and had a great mind not to be a maid again, because I knew I should hate waiting on any other mistress. But peop...
4. CHAPTER IV.I have already said that the circumstances connected with the photograph which I had found in Kitty's purse had made me fancy that there was some secret reason for her regarding...