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"I have constantly to attend sick-calls, and if one is absorbed in a book one experiences a certain reluctance in putting it aside." "The people are very inconsiderate. Now, why did that man put off coming to fetch you till eleven o'clock last night? He knew his wife was ill." "Sometimes one is apt to think them inconsiderate." "The two volumes of miracle plays!"
"Every mile of it, sir," he said, "every mile of it; and we see him riding along the roads on his bicycle going to sick-calls buttoned up in his old coat." "Do you often come this way?" "Not very often, sir. No one lives here except the poor people and the priest and the doctor.
Whereupon they took the hint and departed, assuring Andy, by way of farewell, that he was an unappreciative cuss and didn't deserve any sympathy or sick-calls. They also condoled openly with Pink because he had been detailed as nurse, and advised him to sit right down on Andy if he got too sassy and haughty over being shot up by a real outlaw.
I went to consult the books in which all the sick-calls were entered and to speak to our aged, respected sacristan who kept them. He remarked at once, 'You do not know this man, father; his children come to our school, but he is, or has always been, considered as a Protestant. Expressing my surprise, less at the fact than at his statement, I hurried to the bedside of the sufferer.