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Her eyes rested for a moment on his high boots, his heavy mustache, so long as to mingle with the unkempt locks which fell over his broad shoulders, on his huge red hands streaked with black grease from the wagon wheels, and some blood, stanched with snow, drawn from bruises in cutting out brambles in the brush; on more awful than all a monstrous, shiny "specimen" gold ring encircling one of his fingers, on the whiskey bottle that shamelessly bulged from his side pocket, and then slowly dropped her dissatisfied eyelids.
She had collected herself and, although still shaky, was cool and efficient, her nurse's experience rendering the doctor invaluable aid. Together they soon stanched the bleeding and directed De Launay's removal to a near-by tent where he was laid upon ample bedding. Then the doctor turned to Solange and Sucatash, who hovered around her like a satellite. "I've done what I can," he said.
In the fire-trench or perhaps it would be more correct to call it the water-trench life may be short, and is seldom merry; but it is not often dull. For one thing, we are never idle. A Boche trench-mortar knocks down several yards of your parapet. Straightway your machine-gunners are called up, to cover the gap until darkness falls and the gaping wound can be stanched with fresh sandbags.
"There no questions," said he, "but broil me a steak on't, for I am faint." Margaret did not see he was wounded; she thought the blood was all from the deer. She busied herself at the fire, and the stout soldier stanched and bound his own wound apart; and soon he and Gerard and Margaret were supping royally on broiled venison.
He was conveyed to the chamber of the alchymist, who now repaid in kind the attentions which the student had once bestowed upon him. Among his varied knowledge he possessed some skill in surgery, which at this moment was of more value than even his chymical lore. He stanched and dressed the wounds of his disciple, which on examination proved less desperate than he had at first apprehended.
My father took the lamb, stanched the bleeding wound, took it in his arms and carried it home the old sheep, in the mean time, following, and expressing her joy and gratitude, not by words, it is true, but by looks and actions more truthful, and which were not to be mistaken.
Nor did I know more till they lifted me and laid me on a litter of poplar boughs, having stanched my wound as best they might. In the boat, as they ferried us across the river, I believe that I fainted again; and so, "between home and hell," as the saying is, I lay on my litter and was carried along the street beside the water. Folk gathered around us as we went.
"Bring me the iodine," said Leighton, as with his handkerchief he stanched the blood from a bad scratch on his right wrist. "Heavens! Glen," cried Hélène, "how did you get that? "Didn't you see me jump when she said 'such'?" asked Leighton. Then they sat down, and Hélène laughed for a long time, while Leighton tried not to. "Oh," he said at last, "I wish we didn't have to think of Lew!"
A year or two later, when she had published her book on the French Revolution, writing again to Hannah More, he thus concludes his letter: "Adieu, thou excellent woman! thou reverse of that hyena in petticoats, Mrs. Wollstonecraft, who to this day discharges her ink and gall on Marie Antoinette, whose unparalleled sufferings have not yet stanched that Alecto's blazing ferocity."
Madame de la Baudraye loved Etienne so truly, that this prudence, worthy of de Clagny, gratified her and stanched her tears. "He loves me for myself alone!" thought she, looking at him with smiling eyes. Lousteau could produce in Dinah the acute agitation which may be compared to magnetism, that upsets every power of the mind and body, and overcomes every instinct of resistance in a woman.
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