Sad and more difficult though the road must seem to us now, our
privilege has been a proud one: to have served and worked with her, to
have known the unfailing support of her strength and sympathy, and, best
of all, to be permitted to preserve through life the memory and the
stimulus of a supreme ideal."[24]
"So passes the soul of a very gallant woman. Living, she spent herself
lavishly for humanity. Dying, she joins the great unseen army of Happy
Warriors, who as they pass on fling to the ranks behind a torch which,
pray God, may never become a cold and lifeless thing."[25]
FOOTNOTES:
[22] In a letter written to his son after his death: see _Life beyond
Death_, by Minot Judson Savage.
[23] The Very Rev. Wallace Williamson.
[24] Miss Yvonne Fitzroy in _With the Scottish Nurses in Roumania_.
[25] A writer in the _Sunday Times_.
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men and women who have followed the medical profession both at home and
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