They are ugly scratches and painful, but not over deep.

The lad will not be scarred, methinks, when the wound is well healed.

See, it looks better already after the bathing.
"Run, Julian, for the roll of lint and the strapping in yon cupboard.
"The boy will be a sorry spectacle for a few short days, but after that I trow he will feel none the worse." "It is but a scratch," said Edred, speaking more freely now, though with a mumbling accent, as though his lips were swollen, which, indeed, one of them was.

"I scarce feel it, now it is bathed.

Do not look so grave anent the matter, my father." Sir Oliver, relieved to find matters no worse, went on his way; and Lady Chadgrove proceeded to bind up and plaster the bruised face with the skill and dexterity of which she was mistress.