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"There, sir; that will answer your purpose, and I am certain it is all that is required of me.""What do you take to be my purpose, then, sir?""To report yourself wounded in your dispatches," replied the doctor, with great steadiness; "and you may say that an old woman dressed your hurts - for if one did not, one easily might!""Very extraordinary language," muttered the Englishman.