Mr. ——: “I know, Miss Barton, but she told me to tell you that, if your assistant would open the door wide enough so that she could just see your face, she would give a hundred dollars to charity, and you could use it among the sufferers.”
Miss Barton: “I have worked very hard here, and am a very sick woman, but I have not yet become a ‘show-woman,’ and I don’t think I will. I do not understand such curiosity, nor why your young lady friend would care to see me,” and she unconcernedly passed on to another subject apparently more agreeable to her modest nature.
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Clara Barton was loved by the people of the whole world.
The Two Martyrs—By Hon. Francis Atwater.
Love is the life of the soul. William Ellery Channing.
The law of Heaven is love. Hosea Ballou.
The soul of woman lives in love. Mrs. Sigourney.
Love—’tis woman’s whole existence. Byron.
The religion of humanity is love. Mazzini.