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Updated: May 11, 2025
When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said he. Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good misfortune!"
"What, then you would persuade me," replied the patient, "that the only way to save my life was to shed my precious blood? Look ye, friend, it shall not be lost blood to me. I take you all to witness, that there surgeon, or apothecary, or farrier, or dog-doctor, or whatsoever he may be, has robbed me of the balsam of life. He has not left so much blood in my body as would fatten a starved flea.
"And what, Sir," said Cecilia, whom mingled shame and vexation had hitherto kept silent, "is your business with me?" "Why, ma'am, I only just called to give you a direction to a most excellent dog-doctor, as we call him, that lives at the comer of " "A dog-doctor, Sir?" repeated Cecilia, "and what have I to do with any such direction?"
Do you know of a good dog-doctor? The person I have employed so far doesn't at all satisfy me." "Professional person?" inquired Felix. "Yes." "All humbugs, my dear aunt. The worse the dog gets the bigger the bill grows, don't you see? I have got the man for you a gentleman. Knows more about horses and dogs than all the veterinary surgeons put together.
The man sprang for his throat, but Buck was too quick for him. His jaws closed on the hand, nor did they relax till his senses were choked out of him once more. "Yep, has fits," the man said, hiding his mangled hand from the baggageman, who had been attracted by the sounds of struggle. "I'm takin' 'm up for the boss to 'Frisco. A crack dog-doctor there thinks that he can cure 'm."
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