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Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches: An Army Nurse's True Account of her Experience during the Civil War., Chapter 1: Obtaining Supplies. (search)
then write. Try teaching again, suggested my mother. No thank you, ma'am, ten years of that is enough. Take a husband like my Darby, and fulfill your mission, said sister Joan, home on a visit. Can't afford expensive luxuries, Mrs. Coobiddy. Turn actress, and immortalize your name, said sister Vashti, striking an attitude. I won't. Go nurse the soldiers, said my young neighbor, Tom, panting for the tented field. I will! So far, very good. Here was the will, amud from every gutter I fell into. All in vain; and I mournfully turned my face toward the General's, feeling that I should be forced to enrich the railroad company after all, when, suddenly, I beheld that admirable young man, brother-in-law Darby Coobiddy, Esq. I arrested him with a burst of news, and wants, and woes, which caused his manly countenance to lose its usual repose. Oh, my dear boy, I'm going to Washington at five, and I can't find the free ticket man, and there won't be time t