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"If you please, we will have him conducted where the surgeon may see and report upon his case without delay."
Bless me - is it George - poor little George?" exclaimed the surgeon, as he quickened his pace with evident concern, and hastened to the side of the bed.
The surgeon removed his spectacles to wipe an unusual moisture from his eyes, and proceeded carefully to the discharge of his duty.
The group around the bed of Captain Singleton were too much accustomed to the manner of their surgeon to regard or to reply to his soliloquy; but they quietly awaited the moment when he was to commence his examination.
The patient shrank from the application of the probe, and a smile stole over the features of the surgeon, as he muttered,-"There has been nothing before it in that quarter."
At length Singleton gave a slight groan, and the surgeon rose with alacrity, and said aloud,-"Ah! there is some pleasure in following a bullet; it may be said to meander through the human body, injuring nothing vital; but as for Captain Lawton's men - ""Speak," interrupted Dunwoodie; "is there hope? - can you find the ball?""It's no difficult matter to find that which one has in his hand, Major Dunwoodie," replied the surgeon, coolly, preparing his dressings.
"You!" exclaimed the surgeon, dropping his dressings in surprise, "you!
The impatient major pointed silently to his friend, and the surgeon quickened his movements.
Everything here looked propitious, and he acquainted the surgeon that another patient waited his skill in the room below.
"Then, sir," observed Miss Peyton, after listening to the surgeon's account of his young patient, "we may be flattered with the expectation that he will recover."
"It was a surgeon that Major Dunwoodie was to send me, and not an old woman."
"If, sir," said the surgeon dryly, "the degrees of Edinburgh - walking your London hospitals - amputating some hundreds of limbs - operating on the human frame in every shape that is warranted by the lights of science, a clear conscience, and the commission of the Continental Congress, can make a surgeon, I am one."
"For which I thank Captain Wharton," said the surgeon, proceeding coolly to arrange his amputating instruments, with a formality that made the colonel's blood run cold.
Colonel Wellmere had already sought a retreat in his own room; Mr. Wharton and his son were closeted by themselves; and the ladies were administering the refreshments of the tea table to the surgeon of the dragoons, who had seen one of his patients in his bed, and the other happily enjoying the comforts of a sweet sleep.
"It sounds prodigiously like the concussion on the atmosphere made by the explosion of firearms," said the surgeon, sipping his tea with great indifference.
All trades, madam, ought to be allowed to live; but what is to become of a surgeon, if his patients are dead before he sees them!"
Instinctively laying his hand on a small saw, that had been his companion for the whole day, in the vain expectation of an amputation, the surgeon, coolly assuring the ladies that he would stand between them and danger, proceeded in person to answer the summons.
"Captain Lawton!" exclaimed the surgeon, as he beheld the trooper leaning on the arm of his subaltern, and with difficulty crossing the threshold.
These interruptions, however, interfered but little with the principal business in hand; and the captain had got happily through with this important duty, before the surgeon returned to announce all things ready for his accommodation in the room above stairs.
The surgeon muttered his dissatisfaction, while he followed Mason and the captain from the apartment.
The surgeon, who was well acquainted with these views of his patient, beheld him, as he cavalierly turned his back on Mason and himself, with a commiserating contempt, replaced in their leathern repository the phials he had exhibited, with a species of care that was allied to veneration, gave the saw, as he concluded, a whirl of triumph, and departed, without condescending to notice the compliment of the trooper.
This was one of the few points, in which the care of the human frame was involved, on which the trooper and the surgeon of horse were ever known to agree.
Occasionally he would pay a visit to the wounded Englishman, who, being more hurt in the spirit than in the flesh, tolerated the interruptions with a very ill grace; and once, for an instant, he ventured to steal softly to the bed of his obstinate comrade, and was near succeeding in obtaining a touch of his pulse, when a terrible oath, sworn by the trooper in a dream, startled the prudent surgeon, and warned him of a trite saying in the corps, "that Captain Lawton always slept with one eye open."
The surgeon drew up, and employed himself in whistling a low air, as he looked over some phials on a table; but the housekeeper, turning to him with an inclination of the head, continued,-"I suppose, sir, a woman has no dower in her husband's property, unless they be actually married."
"Let me set you right in that particular," interrupted the surgeon.
The surgeon disregarded the smile of the ladies, and pursued his inquiries.
"With simples," returned the surgeon.
"Therein you show your sense," said the surgeon, approaching the spinster, who sat holding the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet to the genial heat of a fine fire, making the most of comfort amid all her troubles.
"More true than civil, I dare say," returned the surgeon, losing sight of the woman's character in his admiration of her respect for the healing art.
"Indeed, I can easily comprehend the mortification you must have felt in having one so self-willed to deal with," returned the surgeon, glancing his eyes reproachfully at his comrade.
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