brother-surgeons

Updated: May 4, 2025

"Well! well! it needed not the chalked cross which my brother-surgeons had left upon the rough board whereon he lay to show how urgent was the relief he sought; it needed not the prophetic words of the Vermonter, nor the damp that mingled with the brown curls that clung to his pale forehead, to show how hopeless it was now. I called him by name.

Bret Harte - Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories