It tears scarcely at all.

Nor will your beauty be spoiled in the slightest, young sir.

Both orifices are under the full thickness of your hair." "I'm grateful for all your assurances," said Lannes, his old indomitable smile appearing in his eyes, "but you'll have to cure me fast, faster than you ever cured anybody before, because I'm a flying man, and I fly again tomorrow." "Not tomorrow.

In two or three days, perhaps--" "Yes, tomorrow, I tell you! Nothing can keep me from it! This army will march tonight! I know it! and do you think such a wound as this can keep me here, when the fate of Europe is being decided?
I'd rise from these blankets and go with the army even if I knew that it would make me fall dead the next day!" He spoke with such fierce energy that the surgeon who at first sternly forbade, looked doubtful and then acquiescent.
"Go, then," he said, "if you can.

The fact that we have so many heroes may save us." He left John alone in the tent with Lannes.