Florence Nightingale : a biography.

  • Matheson, Annie, 1853-1924.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Florence Nightingale : a biography. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

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    stories, clerk and parson dividing the service betw^een them, and the rustic bareness of the stone walls matched by the visible bell-ropes and the benches for the labouring people. But the special story that has come dow^n from those days suggests that the parson w^as more satirical than Mr. Gilfil or Mr. Tryan, and it is to be feared that when he remarked that a lie is a very useful thing in trade, the people who quoted him in Derby market-place merely used his Devil's text '* as a convenience and saw no satire in it at all. Have we really travelled a little way towards honesty since those days, or have we grown more hypocritical? The little girl in the squire's pew grew up in a home where religious shams were not likely to be taken at their face value. Her father, who was one of the chief sup- porters of the cheap schools of the neighbour- hood, had his own ways of helping the poor folk on his estate, but used to reply to some of the beseeching people who wanted money from him for local charities that he was not born generous. Generous or not, he had very de-