Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig

Author:Lauren Willig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2021-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

We’ve had our first taste of real winter weather here—and I don’t mean just the water freezing in our pails. We’re used to that by now. We had our first snow this week and it took us all by surprise. The inhabitants say they’ve never known it to start so early and they hadn’t thought they’d see us again until spring. But nothing stops these women from their appointed rounds. Nell Baldwin staggered off to Esmery-Hallon and came back just before supper looking like a walking icicle. Our assistant director had to take our one working truck and go off after the Van Alden girl, who had, it appeared, spent all day in a miserable hut to make a dying woman as comfortable as possible (pneumonia, in case you were wondering—we have a great deal of pneumonia here).

As for yours truly, this morning, Dr. Pruyn and I arose at five thirty and started for Hombleux with the horse and cart (I use the term horse broadly) lent us by the sous-préfet. We got a little more than halfway and found the snow in such drifts that we had to abandon the cart entirely and walk the beast the rest of the way to Hombleux. I think it expected us to carry it, but we were already carrying half a medicine chest on our backs and had to decline.

If the snow keeps up, we are going to be in a very bad way indeed. Our villages cover such a large territory. . . .

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