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...nk’ is a collection of eight short tales about how to cope with such things as unwelcome evangelists, visitors, praise, sexual attention, living in a nursing home, relations, genetic modification and sexual urges....

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...nd most responsible--child of her family, helped raise her four siblings due to their mother's long-time illness and father's death. After faithfully nursing two ill brothers (who died), she then cared for her invalid mother for many years. When Julia's mother passes on, her only surviving sibling Ellen fully expects--and nearly demands--that her spinster sister come live ...

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...ced on her. But now, on the eve of graduation, she couldn’t go on with the mask of artificiality and the air of perfection. She had been chasing this nursing job three whole years, but there was just no wag to it! The Superintendent was stunned. Her best student! The Senior Surgeon was all grey granite business and livid that his time was being taken up with a hysterical n...

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...lly the young mothers. The little princess was a charming pupil and quick to learn the skills of nursing. She seemed to enjoy this break from the ha... ...isted by a Parsi, Doctor Patel, who had been engaged by Mahmoud Bin Said a few months ago and the nursing staff had been increased by two Eurasian n... ...him.’ Helen’s visits to the clinic were restricted to a few hours each day. Doctor Patel and the nursing staff had everything well in hand. She was ... ...has never been higher. She rolls up her sleeves and never flinches from the unpleasant aspects of nursing dysentery sufferers.’ ‘She feels the same...

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... a fine townhouse was not what I craved. I wanted to work with poor Angel, nursing her back to health and riding her through the streets. I wanted... ...ture; I had no more stomach for Alice Harrington’s society. When I was not nursing my husband, I was riding one of the horses. Sometimes Erik ins... ... remembered Maggie’s letter telling me the news; I had been so consumed with nursing Erik that I had not written back. I apologized, but he waved my...

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...y labor. His wife was dead of the fever, and money was owing for Perotte’s nursing. The wife of Pierre Cambremer owed about one hundred francs to dive...

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...us. When I awoke at last I found my self in a strange room. A man who was nursing me told me quietly that he had picked me up one morning on the Bou ...

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...ng constantly at that drawing of his, which she kept outside upon the bed, nursing her love and think- ing of it, and endeavouring, vainly endeavourin...

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...out at work, she sitting in the middle, smothered in the great coarse apron, nursing baby. By and by the broth was done; and the baby woke up, smilin...

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... a case properly treated. Now, Ethel, you and I will show what intelligent nursing can do.’ ‘I believe you are delighted,’ growled Aubrey. ‘So should ... ...ge chance he had come back at all, he would have been so rabid on improved nursing and sanatory measures, that there would have been no living with hi... ... never in danger, and Dr. Spencer’s promise of the effects of ‘intelligent nursing’ was fully realized, Ethel and Mary were so occupied by him, that i... ...ly then gave way—but she never had any constitu- tion—she was done up with nursing—nothing to fall back on—sudden collapse and prostration—and that po... ...d have been given to the care of her own person, since the sole burthen of nursing had so grievously and sud- denly descended on her. Mary’s first ins... ...re of a stranger. She apprehended all manner of ill consequences; and then nursing him, and regarding his progress as her own work, had been the sedat... ...e idleness, that he was quite off her mind, only enlivening her morning of nursing by his exits and entrances, to tell of fresh discov- eries, or inci... ... and then she may be able to take comfort. You know she would, if she were nursing me now in my bed at Bankside; so why should she not when she sees t... ... father quietly feel the boy’s hand and brow. The whole family were always nursing the lad, and scolding one another for it. T om had put himself besi...

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... enough for these manifold occu- pations and the minute precautions of the nursing mother; those days fled by, laden with her secret content. The coun... ...ville with a dukedom), not wishing, he said, to fatigue his wife, gave the nursing of the youngest boy to a stout peasant-woman chosen by Beauvouloir,...

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...firm is not doing the business it was; it’s like a sick child, it requires nursing. What I wanted the doctors to do was to fix me up, so that I could ...

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...cipation, wrapped also in striped shawls, though in prettier ones than the nursing mothers of the steerage, and crowned with very high hats and feathe...

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...summer with him, trying to show him by example how to get back to work and nursing a rage of another sort that I tried not to show him. The whole busi...

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...leon, for the babe Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I’ll leave it At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner: I’ll bring the body presently. [Exeun...

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... you a nun?’ ‘Such nonsense!’ said Flora. ‘I’m a sick-nurse; and I am here nursing your sister, with whom, between you and me, there is precious littl... ...lora had found her patient wakeful, and been detained with some details of nursing, for he had time to make a full end of all there was to eat, and no... ...romp’s cottage; thither he bade George guide him, and thither he followed, nursing grief, anxiety, and indignation in his heart. ‘Here it is, sir,’ sa...

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...ld had come home for ice, strawberries, and, above all, to ask for help in nursing, for the landlady could not, and would not, do much. I mentioned a ... ... could get a helper. I thought this would be, at least, as queer as Dora’s nursing of the other brother; but it seemed so hard for the poor man, comin... ...m afraid I went through my Lenten services in the spirit of the elder son, nursing my virtuous indignation, and dwelling chiefly on what would become ... ...oolmer, until Harold came, thankful and hopeful to fetch me, a few more of nursing accepted with touching grati- tude, and he was soon downstairs agai... ...imate already?) and found that young lady in a point device walking dress, nursing the pug and talking to Dermot, and so we set forth for the beech-wo...

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...esolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon- meat, into whiteness, and if possible into m... ... there, whom thou namest Father and Mother; these were, like mine, but thy nursing-father and nursing-mother: thy true Beginning and Father is in Heav...

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...d by the bad health of the elder, who al- most owed her life to the tender nursing of the younger. And as Mrs. Wardour was only eager to keep to herse... ...nd said she must attend to no one else. All that winter and spring she was nursing her sister day and night, watching over her, and quite keeping up t... ...ess - Then her heart smote her. She remembered Mary’s tender and assiduous nursing all the morning, and how she had already stayed from service and Su...

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...on to take the upper hand, and drive him like a herd of sheep. I sat there nursing my knee and smiling at the fire; and I saw myself in fancy smell ou... ...s) came in at times from the round-house, where he berthed and served, now nursing a bruised limb in silent agony, now raving against the cruelty of M... ...displeasure would blow by. For the same length of time I stayed in myself, nursing my anger, roughly refusing his ser- vices, and passing him over wit...