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Summoning a black boy to hold the basin of water, she fell to upon the wound-dressing with as little ado as if she had been a surgeon's apprentice on a battle-field, and I a bloodless ancient too old to thrill at the touch of a woman's hands. "Dear heart! 'tis a monstrous ugly hurt," she declared, replacing the wrappings with deft fingers.
Though she was hurting me sorely in the wound-dressing, and knew it, she laughed. "'Tis most ungallant to deny a lady, sir. But I shall know without the telling; 'twas about a woman. Tell me, Captain Ireton, is she fair?"
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