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'We'll save him yet, he said; and the Surgeon, who, though he ranked with the Captain, had a very youthful heart, went out upon the word and pranced joyously in the mud. 'Not going out this journey, whispered Bobby Wick gallantly, at the end of the third day. 'Bravo! said the Surgeon-Major. 'That's the way to look at it, Bobby.
On November 14th, at seven o'clock in the morning, the mobiles of Souvigny assembled in the great square of the town; their chaplain was the Abbe Constantin, their surgeon-major, Dr. Reynaud. The same idea had come at the same moment to both; the priest was sixty-two, the doctor fifty.
As evening fell a gray shade gathered round Bobby's mouth, and he turned his face to the tent wall wearily. The Surgeon-Major frowned. 'I'm awfully tired, said Bobby, very faintly. 'What's the use of bothering me with medicine? I don't want it. Let me alone. The desire for life had departed, and Bobby was content to drift away on the easy tide of Death. 'It's no good, said the Surgeon-Major.
Incapable of sustaining the glance of the officer who was gathering his testimony, Prosper Magnan suddenly felt his hand pressed by a man, and he raised his eyes to see who his protector could be in that crowd of enemies. He recognized by his uniform the surgeon-major of the demi-brigade then stationed at Andernach.
I knew there was something I meant to tell you. Don't you know, Ronnie? but of course you don't. You're sure it's Thomson Surgeon-Major Thomson?" "That's the man." "He is the man with the new post," Sir Alfred declared hoarsely. "He is the head of the whole Military Intelligence Department! They've set him up at the War Office. They've practically given him unlimited powers."
A carriage was approaching, followed by three riders: Landsberg, little Dr. von Fröben, his second, and Gretzschel, who was brought chiefly to look after the horses. The carriage stopped at the foot of the hill. Kauerhof got out, with the pistol cases in his hand, and after him the surgeon-major and his assistant, both with instrument cases.
Twenty-one Egyptian orderlies do the sanitary work of the camp; serious cases are sent to the English hospital at Alexandria. A Turkish Surgeon-Major, Dr. Ibrahim, interned at the camp, is present at operations performed upon his Ottoman comrades in the hospital. He expressed himself as entirely satisfied with the care bestowed upon them.
"Mimicry isn't a fair word," he said. "The mimic doesn't interpret. He's a mere thief of expression. You can always see him behind his stolen mask. The actress takes a different rank. This one does, anyway." "You're mixing her up with the apes and the monkeys," remarked Surgeon-Major Livingstone. "Mere imitators!" cried Mrs. Barberry. Alicia did not allow the argument to pursue her.
Every movement betrayed intelligence; born with grace and charm, like nearly all the children of love, the noble blood of his real father came out in him. "Don't you know, Max," cried the son of a former surgeon-major named Goddet now the best doctor in the town from the other end of the table, "that Madame Hochon's goddaughter is the sister of Rouget?
It was gratifying, and yet it enhanced in Stephen this evening the indrawing of his under-lip, a plaintive twist of expression which spoke upon the faces of quite half the Order of patience under privation. The atmosphere was one of congratulation; the week's Gazette had transformed Surgeon-Major Livingstone into Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel.
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