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St. Ives

CHAPTER II--A TALE OF A PAIR OF SCISSORS
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''Tis but a scratch, my child; here is papa, who is taking good care of you.

Your shoulder is bound up; we have dressed you in your clothes again, and it will all be well.' At this I began to remember.

'And Goguelat ?' I gasped.
'He cannot bear to be moved; he has his bellyful; 'tis a bad business,' said the sergeant-major.
The idea of having killed a man with such an instrument as half a pair of scissors seemed to turn my stomach.

I am sure I might have killed a dozen with a firelock, a sabre, a bayonet, or any accepted weapon, and been visited by no such sickness of remorse.

And to this feeling every unusual circumstance of our rencounter, the darkness in which we had fought, our nakedness, even the resin on the twine, appeared to contribute.


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