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Verena in the Midst: A Kind of a Story

Chapter 145: CXXII Verena Raby to Evangeline Barrance
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Presented as a sequence of letters, the work follows the responses of friends and relatives when a woman at her country home sustains a spinal injury and must remain flat for a long recovery. Correspondence records medical opinions, practical arrangements for nursing and household care, visitors and neighborhood support, and small domestic consolations such as reading aloud, recorded music, and an adapted form of solitaire. Through exchanges of news, requests, and observations, the letters map family connections and local characters while illustrating how community, resourcefulness, and affectionate concern reshape daily life during enforced convalescence.

CXXII
Verena Raby to Evangeline Barrance

My Dear Editor,—Having read your second number I feel so much better that I am confident—to my distress—that a third will not be needed. And yet I should so much like to read many more. I have been moved to become a poet myself and write you a testimonial. After hours of thought in the watches of the night I produced this couplet, which even though it is not worthy to stand beside Pansy’s historical ballads is sincere:—

There was once a successful Beguiler
Which turned a sad dame to a smiler.

You are at liberty to quote these lines in all your advertisements,—I am, yours sincerely,

Constant Reader