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With Lee in Virginia

CHAPTER XIII
18/42

Now let us look at this wound of yours.

Has your servant got any warm water ?" he asked Lucy.
Lucy left the room, and returned in a minute with a kettleful of warm water and a basin, which was among the purchases she had made at Mount Pleasant.
"That is right," the doctor said, taking it from her.

"Now we will cut open the shirt-sleeve.

I think, young lady, you had better leave us, unless you are accustomed to the sight of wounds." "I am not accustomed to them, sir; but as thousands of women have been nursing the wounded in the hospitals, I suppose I can do so now." Taking a knife from the case, the doctor cut open the shirt from the neck to the elbow.

The shoulder was terribly swollen and inflamed, and a little exclamation of pain broke from Lucy.
"That is the effect of walking and inattention," the doctor said.


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