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Palmer's eyes were shut, his breathing heavy, uncertain; but his clothes were dried, and his side was bandaged. "It was only a flesh-wound," said Gaunt, in his vague way, "deep, though. I knew how to bind it. He'll live, Douglas will." He did not seem surprised to see the girl.
"There isn't a doubt but what you saved my life, and I must say " She abruptly removed her hands, showing a wrathful and tear-stained face. "You brute! You coward!" she cried. "You have made me shoot a man, and I never shot a man in my life before." "It's only a flesh-wound, and he isn't going to die," Sheldon managed to interpolate. "What of that? I shot him just the same.
Marriageable heiresses, de notre bord, are not to be had for nothing; it must be name for name, and fortune for fortune. The only thing I could do was to go and fight for the Pope. That I did, punctiliously, and received an apostolic flesh-wound at Castlefidardo. It did neither the Holy Father nor me any good, that I could see.
Rose tenderly unbound the bandage, found a mere flesh-wound, to which she applied some lint steeped in styptic, and restored the ligature in a manner more effective. "Remets-toi Alain, réprends ton haleine, et dis-nous ce que c'est," said she, after paying these quasi-maternal attentions to the fugitive. "And first tell me, how bears himself my Michael, and what greeting sends he to his home?"
It was found to be a deep flesh-wound in the shoulder, from which a fragment of the broken arrow still protruded. "It's a wonder to me, Mister Harry, how ye held on to that big thief so long," muttered Jacques, as he drew out the splinter and bandaged up the shoulder. Having completed the surgical operation after a rough fashion, they collected the defeated Indians.
I saw the trooper aim a great horse-pistol that might have been a hundred years old, and I have no doubt that the bullet was as big as they fire in those ancient flint-lock muskets. It stunned me for the moment; but I was on my feet at once, and saw you fall," the sergeant explained. "Are you much hurt, Fronklyn?" asked Deck. "Only a flesh-wound that will heal up in a week, or less.
"I must find life," exclaimed Gaston, "and my fortune at the mines, I hope. I am not a bad fellow, Father. You can easily guess all the things I do. I have never, to my knowledge, harmed any one. I didn't even try to kill my adversary in an affair of honor. I gave him a mere flesh-wound, and by this time he must be quite recovered. He was my friend. But as he came between me "
And I see not why you, being but a tyro, may not be held sufficiently punished for your outrecuidance, and orgillous presumption, by the loss of an ear, an eye, or even a finger, accompanied by some flesh-wound of depth and severity, suited to your error whereas, had you been able to stand more effectually on your defence, I see not how less than your life could have atoned sufficiently for your presumption."
I wish you'd send it to the old woman, mother, Mrs. Jane Carr, Cincinnati, with my love." The Doctor stopped to speak to him, and then passed to the next, a fair-haired boy, with three bullet-holes in his coat, one in his breast. "Will I die?" trying to keep his lips firm. "Tut! tut! No. Only a flesh-wound. Drink that, and you'll be able to go back to the hospital, be well in a week or two."
The shock, however, stunned both of them, and when Phoebus recollected himself he was tied hand and foot and lying on the garret floor again, and over him stood Joe Johnson, flourishing a cowhide. The bandages had again been torn from Phoebus's face, and he was bleeding at the flesh-wound in his cheek, and breathless from his conflict.
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