I've always liked him immensely, and-----" "Humph!" broke in Cadet Holmes, using the turnback's own favorite word.
To just what this scene might have led it is impossible to say, but just at that instant Anstey and two other second classmen came into the room, and the turnback seized the opportunity to get away.
Though Cadet Prescott was so cheerful over his injury he was in a good deal of pain as the evening wore on.
Every hour or so Goodwin or the other surgeon came in to see him.
Though Prescott could hardly be expected to understand it, the surgeons were pleased, on the whole, with the pain.

Had there been numbness, instead, the surgeons would have looked for paralysis.
Later in the night Dick asked Captain Goodwin if he could not administer some light opiate.
"You are willing to be a soldier, I know, Mr.Prescott," replied the surgeon.
"Be sure of that, sir," replied the young man, Wincing.
"Then try to bear the pain.

It is the best indication with which we have to deal.

It is one of the most hopeful symptoms for which we could look.

Besides, your descriptions of the pain, and of its locality, if you are accurate, will give us our best indication of what to do for you." "Then I don't want any opiate, sir," replied Dick bluntly.