Excerpt from Isban-Israel: A South African Story But enough of myself. I have promised to write down, as plainly as possible, the chain of events which transformed me from an hospital nurse into a woman of property. It was only a very few weeks ago that my career as a nurse terminated in a manner so strange that, even now, at times it seems as though it were all a dream, and that presently I shall wake up and find myself in my hospital uniform, attending to my patients in the West Ward, and wondering when the next nurse will appear to relieve me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.