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Updated: May 10, 2025
Working over the next man beyond him and glancing around now and then to discover a brancardier who might take Duck to the rear, I presently caught his eyes fixed on me. "Say, Doc, will you talk business?" he asked in a dull voice. "Be quiet, Duck, the bearers will be here in a minute or two " "T’hell wit them guys!
As I came to the door, the heart of the procession went by. A group of brancardiers formed an irregular square, holding cords to keep back the crowd; and in the middle walked a group of three, followed by an empty litter. The three were a white-haired man on this side, a stalwart brancardier on the other, and between them a girl with a radiant face, singing with all her heart.
A young, bright-eyed doctor looked in and nodded, and the next instant a brancardier appeared, followed by a litter. "But how have you time to examine all these thousands of cases?" asked the prelate, watching the litter advance. "Oh, not one in a hundred comes through to us here. Besides, this is only one of a dozen committee-rooms.
If ever I live long enough in one place, so that I may gather a few possessions and make a home for myself, on one wall of my living-room I will have a bust-length portrait, rear view, of a French brancardier, mud-covered back and battered tin hat. Do you remember our walk with Ménault in the rain, and the déjeuner at the restaurant where they made such wonderful omelettes?
Yet it did not give me any warmth at that moment. Dr. Munro and Lieutenant de Broqueville mounted the steps of the Town Hall, followed by another brancardier and myself. Gleeson was already taking down a stretcher. He had a little smile about his lips. A French officer and two men stood under the broken archway of the entrance between the fallen pillars and masonry.
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