"There is no one but Mother Renouf.

I will fetch her." But when she came she declared herself unable to set a broken limb.

They all three held a consultation over it in their own dialect; but I saw by the solemn shaking of their heads, and Tardif's troubled expression, that it was entirely beyond her skill to set it right.

She would undertake my sprained ankle, for she was famous for the cure of sprains and bruises, but my arm was past her?
The pain I was enduring bathed my face with perspiration, but very little could be done to alleviate it.
Tardif's expression grew more and more distressed.
"Mam'zelle knows," he said, stooping down to speak the more softly to me, "there is no doctor nearer than Guernsey, and the night is not far off.

What are we to do ?" "Never mind, Tardif," I answered, resolving to be brave; "let the women help me into bed, and perhaps I shall be able to sleep.