The Island Cure (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Island CureHer bearing usually suggested a dainty aloofness to everything and everybody petty, and an almost imperceptible hesi tatien in her speech accorded with the dreamy manner from which her friends loved to rouse her, in order to see her glow as if lit from within by ardors and kindled feelings. She made the continu ous vivacity of other girls seem ordinary. On this hot June afternoon, however, in the Auxiliary rooms, alone with Marianna White, she was letting herself run on whimsically.Let's see - have we got all the pieces sorted and counted for the Chinese Relief box? No, here is a set of hygienic gar ments, as if those Celestials living on rice and rafts cared! Now it is ready for shipping.Lay the directions on top, then, and the janitor will do the rest. We can lock up the office and leave. Heavens, dear! Aren't you glad we volunteered for spring work and are free now for the summer?But I can't go anywhere, Marie, my clothes are ante-bellum curiosities. Why! This hat is positively heavy with the coats of colorite it has received.Well, that's a charming old blue you have on it now, Jean, it exactly matches your eyes.You are color blind, Marie, for they are green with envy. As for clothes, if I had the outers and undies I want, I would accept some invitations, but as it is, I am fit for nothing but a desert isle.Get up a new wardrobe, then. You are capable of it. Didn't everybody copy your smocks?Too poor to buy material, and too tired to make it up. Besides, I've lost my artistic sense, I have handled refugee in fants' wear, cut from discarded pa J amas and ¿annel petties till I can no longer shut my eyes and visualize anything smart - and that's the way I have to go about my dressmaking - see the whole creation before I put a stitch into it. Shoes, too!If only I knew enough to earn my living dancing in Greek sandals, and so could avoid the high cost of boots - but being one of the few remaining untrained damsels in the world, you know I do first one thing and then another to earn the wherewithal, and I tell you again, Marianna, it is sneakers and solitude for me, these next weeks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.