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Still draped in the black-and-silver trappings laboriously hung by the / women of Valoise to do funeral honour to Dr. Rouannes, the parish / church, when Jeanne Rouannes entered it, was already transformed into a / hospital ward; and, as she came slowly back to normal conditions of / heart and brain, she was amazed to see all that these capable, if / rough-looking, German medical orderlies had accomplished.
Not only had every kind of bed already been commandeered from the houses / round, but through medieval glass which the Great Revolution had spared, / the sun shone on huge cases containing every kind of surgical requisite / ready for immediate use.