"Ellen Carrington;" a tale of Hull during the cholera in 1849 / [Mrs Curd].

  • Curd, Mrs.
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[1875]
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Credit: "Ellen Carrington;" a tale of Hull during the cholera in 1849 / [Mrs Curd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I. 9 HY are you here brooding over those great ugly looking books, counting up figure after figure and page after page, speculating on this thing, and calculating on that, until your brain is muddled and your hair is white ? ” “ Do you not hear the bells ringingout from every church steeple for all such as you to join in the service of to-day, and vainly try to propitiate an offended God by prayer and fasting ? ’ ’ The speaker was a wild looking woman, with great black eyes, which seemed to be staring in every direction at the same moment, and a profusion of long dark hair which would have hung in a heavy mass of natural curls almost down to her waist, but it was carelessly brushed back from her face and coiled up into a great round knot behind. She possessed every natural advantage to make her a splendid specimen of woman-kind, in the prime