They were to a man, at least to a moneyed man, opposed to Marcus Hogan’s proposal. In a way, Sylvia had herself to blame for the situation. Her own idea in the first place had been to found such a hospital, and she had confided this in her correspondence home, paving the way for what she had then supposed would be the village’s coolness to the project. She had misjudged the psychology of her own people, failing to weigh against their nativism their compulsive charity. Too late, she could say one had only to look at their “Orphans of the Road” where any stray dog could live like a monarch’s pug to realize the benefaction of which they were capable. Their zeal was spontaneous. It could be traced to no other source than Sylvia’s own original enthusiasm. The perceptible change to have taken place during her absence was their conscious pride in Lakewood Hospital, and she could assume that Nathan Reiss had something to do with that. He had become its first chief surgeon, and the hospital had achieved top classification from the Medical Association.
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