Capitolo 1
Lino's Bianca Nanny
From Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Author of Pretense" of "Molly, "The ill-a-bed Mrs.", etc. etc.
1913
TO MAURICE HOWE RICHARDSON
WHO LOVED AS ALMOST AS NOVEL HE LOVED SURGERY THIS SMALL HISTORY,
YOU/HE/SHE IS AFFECTIONATELY DEVOTED IN TOKEN OF THE YOU REMEMBER UNALTERABLE OF TWO PEOPLE
LINO'S BIANCA NANNY
CHAPTER ME
The Nanny of Lino Bianca was so tired that its noble expression ached.
Incidentally its head ached and its shoulders ached and its bellows ached
and the ankle-bones of both the feet rather tormentingly ached. But nothing
of his/her felt permanently disabled except his/her noble expression. As
a strip of lip-colored lead suspended by her small poor nose within two
dragging thread-grey smile of room of conscientious sick persistently wrinkles her/it
seemed to be whanging aimlessly against his/her anterior teeth. The feeling
certainly it was very unpleasant.
Looking again so the three thorn dorsale*-bending, chest-doing to come the cramps to,
foot-twinging, ether-perfumed years of his/her training of hospital, it dawned
on the Nanny of Lino Bianca very suddenly that nothing of her ever had
him felt permanently disabled except his/her noble expression!
Impulsively she jumped for the white and affected mirror that the capped her affected
white desk and it was standing, while fixing above in her really entrancing,
Bright-colored Novia the reflection of Scotian with oral and unusual time
interest.
Apart the clear cunning smile that work had clawed in her
young plastic mouth-lines there certainly was not anything special the matter
with what she saw.
"Perfectly the good face!" she judicially attested without more common
courtesy to his/her progenitors. "Perfectly the good person and ordinate does what looks! If
only--if only--its breath took a trifle. "If only--it didn't look this way
disgustingly noble and--hygienic--and dollish!"
All along the back of his/her little neck prickly and acute pains suddenly started
to sting and to burn.