Part 8 (1/2)

To be a Sister is to have a nationality

As there are Icelanders urbane, witty, lazyand yet they are all Icelandersso there are cold, uproarious, observant, subservient, slangy, sympathetic, indifferent, and Scotch Sisters, and yet

Sister said of a patient to-day, ”He was a funny man”

A funny man is a onistic; who is witty; who is preoccupied; who is whimsical or erratic--funny qualities, unsafe qualities

No Sister could like a funnymuch,” ”nice boys,”

and Mr Wicks

The last looure, a pillar of salt, a witness to God's wrath

The Sister is a past-mistress of such phrases as ”Indeed!” ”That is a matter of opinion,” ”We shall see” ”It is possible”

I have discovered a new and (for a the truth about the contents of et some coal out of the coal-bin with a shovel that turned round and round on its handle; she was unsuccessful

I said, ”Let me, Sister!”

She said, ”Why?”

And I: ”Because I think I can do it better”

”Why should you think that?”

”Because all hus do,” I said, and, luckily, she s her caps out in a bowl in the afternoon when I ca?”

”I a as yet,” she said

”It's because I think so quickly, Sister,” I said; ”I knew you would iron next”

I dined with Irene last night after the hospital

I refused to believe what she toldat half-past nine, and so at a quarter to ten I stood outside ”The Green Lamp” and waited