Recollections of a Happy Life; Being the Autobiography of Marianne North Volume 1 12+

📖 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI TENERIFFE--CALIFORNIA--JAPAN--SINGAPORE The winter after my return from Brazil I devoted to learning to etch on copper, Mr. Edwin Edwardes, who had illustrated the old inns of England, kindly giving me a few lessons. Friends seemed always accumulating round me and making life very enjoyable. I was called down to Netley to help to nurse my cousin, Dudley North, who had returned from Ashantee with three wounds and much fever, though he always maintained the savage who shot him was a gentleman, for he gave a yell first to warn him of the danger. He lived through it, thanks to the care of the doctors and the nursing of Mrs. Deeble, the lady-superintendent there, who sat up with him for fourteen nights. She was a wonderful woman, looking always as if she had nothing to do, though she seldom slept more than one hour of the twenty-four at that busy time. Every bed in the hospital was full, the field in front also covered with tents full of invalids, and more were constantly coming home. I stayed about six weeks, partly at Colonel Gordon's (the Governor), partly at a lodging over the postoffice. When my work there was over I returned home and paid visita among my friends and relations in England, Ireland, and Scotland, going to the meeting of the...