I cannot rest till I know." The lady was ready now to make her examination, and gently removed the rude wrappings the boys had made for themselves.

Edred's face presented an ugly appearance as these were taken away.

He had a great gash across his brow, which passed dangerously near to the eye, and had laid open the cheek almost as far as the mouth, and knocked out one back tooth.

The knight looked concerned at the magnitude of the damage, and spoke rather sharply to Julian.
"Thou must have a care with these weapons of thine, or thou wilt do thy brother a fatal mischief one of these days.

See, boy, had that blow of thine swerved but the half of an inch, thy brother would have lost the sight of an eye forever--nay, he might have lost his life; for an injury to the eye oft penetrates to the brain, and then the skill of the leech is of no avail.
"Good wife, is thy skill sufficient for these hurts?
or shall we send to seek a surgeon's aid ?" "Methinks I can do all that is needful.