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F , the sergeant who had been promoted, joined us here and proved a jolly good sort. We went out to hunt up new billets the next day. He, being a Quebecker, acted as interpreter, as our room was too small and stuffy for two, and, moreover, looked into the operating-room of a hospital opposite.
Not unobserved, however; for straightway two elegant gentlemen they might have been Russian princes pounced upon her and led her to that underground operating-room where a kindly physician is in perennial attendance. He brushed aside her explanations. "It would be a thousand pities for so charming a lady to poison herself.
They might have been outlining the morning's work at his office. "The hand lotion, please." She brought it obediently and poured it into his cupped hands. The solutions of the operating-room played havoc with the skin: the surgeons, and especially Wilson, soaked their hands plentifully with a healing lotion. Over the bottle their eyes met again, and this time the girl smiled faintly.
Edwardes invented it, or whatever they call it. They took a picture of the operating-room for the article. The photographer had to put on operating clothes and wrap the camera in sterilized towels. It was the most thrilling thing, they say " Her voice died away as her eyes followed K.'s. Max, cigarette in hand, was coming across, under the ailanthus tree.
Through the dull quiet of a dark November day the first snow of the season, the first Martie had ever seen, began to flutter. Moving restlessly about her little room, she stopped at the window to look out upon it through a haze of pain. Heat and hot lights, strange halls, a strange doctor, and early evening in a great operating-room; she had only a dazed impression of them all.
Perhaps because she had a woman's instinct for making the most of a piece of news, perhaps more likely, indeed because she divined that the announcement would not be entirely agreeable, she delayed it, played with it. "I have gone into the operating-room." "Fine!" "The costume is ugly. I look hideous in it." "Doubtless." He smiled up at her. There was relief in his eyes, and still a question.
Tamada's galley was as orderly and efficient as the operating-room of a first-class hospital. And Tamada at his work had all the deftness and some of the dignity of a surgeon. There was no wasted move, there was no litter of preparation, every article was returned to its specified place as soon as used, and every implement and utensil was shining and spotless.
The operation was performed successfully, and Varley had issued from the operating-room with the look of a man who had gone through an ordeal which had taxed his nerve to the utmost, to find Valerie Meydon waiting, with a piteous, dazed look in her eyes. But this look passed when she heard him say, "All right!"
He carried no hand-bag, there was no sign of his profession about him. He had sent to Baltimore for his own instruments, but they were waiting for him in the little operating-room at Sunny Farm, having been through every rite practised by modern surgery. The car set off. "It's a magnificent morning," said Red Pepper Burns. "Ideal." "September's the best month in the year, to my fancy."
The apparatus was not in the house must be extemporized, indeed, at last, of odds and ends from the operating-room. K. did the work, his long fingers deft and skillful while Mrs.
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