The spirit of helpfulness and unselfishness is everywhere apparent.
Certain members of the American colony, who never in their lives thought of any one save themselves, and of how to escape boredom, are toiling like chambermaids and hall porters, performing most disagreeable tasks, not for a few hours a week, but unceasingly, day after day.

No task is too heavy for them or too squalid.

They help all alike--Germans, English, major-generals, and black Turcos.
There are three hundred patients.

The staff of the hospital numbers one hundred and fifty.

It is composed of the best-known American doctors in Paris and a few from New York.