Pause by Emily Carr

Author:Emily Carr [Carr, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ART000000
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Published: 2007-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

JOHN’S COUGH WENT from the east wing. Hokey tried to force cheerfulness, settling me for the night. “Books, singing-soldiers, have I done everything?” she prattled, forcing gaiety.

“Hokey, don’t sham! Was it the larks or the nightingales that sang John Withers into Heaven?”

Hokey choked. “Dear old man… a lark going up, up, up, was the last thing he noticed.” Doctor’s step! Hokey pulled her face straight, flew from my room.

FOOD

FORTY AND MORE fickle appetites strolled into the San dining-room, unenthusiastically took their places at table. A big part of the T.B. treatment was eating. Eating was compulsory. If patients refused to eat, the San refused to keep them as patients. Doctor McNair and Matron stood at a side table and served. Were Doctor Bottle present, she dictated the helpings, cruel mountains of meat, vegetables and pudding helpings that would stagger the appetite of healthy men and women, and were positively loathsome to invalids. The maids brought the hateful plates and slapped them down before each patient. You felt “pull-together” and “nausea” struggle in disgust and revolt as each patient surveyed her pile. When all were served Doctor and Matron took their places, one at either end of the long table, and started animated conversation. One by one the patients picked up their knives and forks and began to attack the food. It was bravely done.

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