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"Pray get it out at once, monsieur." "Ay, ay, that's all very well, but the damage may be done, and now, 'cré nom-de-Dieu, you expect me to undo it." "I am sorry." "Sorry won't set this right," with a shake of the head like an angry bull, "No 'cré nom-de-Dieu!" He was a rather violent old man, but skillful with his terrible little tools, and he worked away with them till I left him hurriedly.
So she said she would ride half the day with each of us." "But, nom-de-dieu, what is the good of that? There is no sense in it." "It is her wish." He flogged a gorse bush angrily with a switch he had cut for Black Boy's benefit, and looked more than half inclined to fling himself back on to his horse and ride away, which would have been quite to my taste.
"Then, as soon as you have had the other patched up and settled somewhere in safety, you'd better leave him in Krok's care and get back here. And the sooner the better. The people in Guernsey will want your story from your own lips in this matter." "How soon can we get into the cave?" "Nom-de-Dieu, yes!... Voyons donc! About two o'clock with a wet shirt.
One time, coming upon him unawares, I saw his lips moving as though he were attempting speech to himself, but as soon as he saw me he set himself once more to his grim silence, and the look in his eyes reminded me somehow of Krok. On the seventh day, when the doctor asked his usual question, and I as usual replied, he said gravely, "'Cré nom-de-Dieu, I doubt if he will ever speak again.
He pinched his lips and shook his head over it, and said angrily, "'Cré nom-de-Dieu! It should have been seen to before!" "But, monsieur," I said, "we have no doctor, else I would not have brought him here." "But, nom-de-Dieu! that bullet should have been got out at once. It is pressing on the brain. It may have set up inflammation, and what that may lead to the good God alone knows!"
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