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Updated: June 12, 2025
A young assistant surgeon was with him, whom Ray cajoled and bullied alternately; called him such military pet names as "Pills," "Squills," and "Sawbones" whenever he had occasion to address him; laughed him out of all his feeble protests against "exciting himself," and bade him reserve his ministrations for Blake, who would be in on the morrow.
All the furniture was of a massive and old-fashioned pattern. A few minutes later, with face and hands washed clean collars, clothes neatly brushed, the two clear-eyed, manly-looking young fellows returned to the first floor. "I suppose this hotel is full of young men like ourselves, wondering what tomorrow will bring them, when they get before the sawbones," muttered Dan.
Tom was just sitting up on the side of the bed. "Hiya, Astro!" called Tom with a weak grin. "The sawbones tells me I owe you a brand-new shiny credit piece for saving my life." His enthusiasm at high pitch, Astro was nevertheless unable to do more than smile broadly at his unit mate. "Only reason I did it," he said. "All right, here you are." Tom handed over a coin.
Pendennis and his sister, they remarked that Pen's father was only a sawbones; and that he gave himself confounded airs; they had been in Huxter's company on the night of his little altercation with Pen in the Back Kitchen.
Barry would have given much for a flask of brandy. A tablespoonful would bring Rudyard back. A surgeon was not needed, however. Krool's hands had knowledge. Barry remembered the day when Wallstein was taken ill in Rudyard's house, and how Krool acted with the skill of a Westminster sawbones. Suddenly a bugle-call sounded, loud and clear and very near them.
This address seemed to wake up Prosper Magnan, who rose and made a few steps forward; but when the door was opened and he felt the fresh air and saw the crowd before him, he staggered and his knees gave way under him. "This coward of a sawbones deserves a dozen deaths! Get on!" cried the two soldiers who had him in charge, lending him their arms to support him.
No strategist, but a leader who could be trusted with his country's honour. Upright, honourable, honest, brave and it had come to this. It had come to his sitting shamefaced before a poor unknown sawbones not daring to look him in the face. His duty was plain enough. Charlie Thurkow's turn had come. Charlie Thurkow must be sent to Capoo by his father's orders.
He ended by asking my consent to the engagement subject to any reasonable conditions that I might choose to lay down. To me the shock was great, for, occupied as I was with my own affairs and ambitions, I had been blind to what was passing before my face. I had hoped to see my daughter a peeress, and now I found her the affianced bride of a parish sawbones.
I was rather touchy about my size; I could n't help being a giant, and the little ferret of a sawbones knew it. I had only one means of revenge. He was a great stickler for maintaining the dignity of his profession, and I always called him "Doc." Stodger was to remain up-stairs until called for, when I would relieve him during the brief period required for his testimony.
I had my doubts, however, of Macquoid's sincerity, and having had some experience of his mode of treatment on a former occasion, resolved to be very much better the next visit he paid us. I said nothing to Spellman, whose spirits rose immediately. "I told you so," he exclaimed, when Macquoid was gone. "I told you I should humbug Johnny Sawbones."
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