Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 13, 2025
For two long months he had kept his bed, although Major Bouroche asserted there was nothing more serious than a contusion of the ankle and a fragment of bone chipped away; the wound refused to heal and complications of various kinds had ensued.
"I have a sore foot, monsieur the doctor " Bouroche, with a savage shake of his big head with its leonine mane, turned on him with a roar: "I am not monsieur the doctor; who taught you manners?" And when Maurice, taken all aback, made a stammering attempt to excuse himself, he continued: "Address me as major, do you hear, you great oaf!"
He was immediately carried upstairs and put to bed in a room on the first floor, and Bouroche, who was summoned at once, finding the injury not of a serious character, had only to apply a dressing to the wound, from which he first extracted some bits of the leather of the boot.
Maurice, sick at heart in that atmosphere of human distress and suffering, had long since dragged Jean away. As they passed out through the shed where the operations were performed they saw Bouroche preparing to amputate the leg of a poor little man of twenty, without chloroform, he having been unable to obtain a further supply of the anaesthetic.
Returning to Bouroche to remind him of his promise and conduct him to the captain, he was astonished to find him seated on a bundle of straw before two pails of iced water, into which he had plunged both his arms, bared to the shoulder.
And he shook the tawny locks upon his lion's head, rejuvenated and refreshed, restored to himself once more by the invincible habit of duty and the stern discipline of his profession. "Good! just above the right ankle," said Bouroche, with unusual garrulity, intended to quiet the nerves of the patient.
If the bombardment should continue with such fury for any length of time there would be nothing left of the city. "It can't be; I am going to see about it!" Delaherche exclaimed, violently excited. "Where are you going, pray?" asked Bouroche. "Why, to the Sous-Prefecture, to see what the Emperor means by fooling us in this way, with his talk of hoisting the white flag."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking