You can ask Irons, who dresses them when I'm out of the way.' 'I'd rather ask you, Sir,' replied Dangerfield, in turn a little high.
'Well, you can't apply the trepan, the surface is too extended, and all unsound, and won't bear it--'twould be simply killing him on the spot--don't you see?
and there's no way else to relieve him.' General Chattesworth had not yet returned.

On his way home he had wandered aside, and visited the fashionable wells of Buxton, intending a three days' sojourn, to complete his bracing up for the winter.

But the Pool of Siloam did not work pleasantly in the case of the robust general, who was attacked after his second dip with a smart fit of the gout in his left great-toe, where it went on charmingly, without any flickering upward, quite stationary and natural for three weeks.
About the end of which time the period of the annual ball given by the officers of the Royal Irish Artillery arrived.

It was a great event in the town.

To poor Mrs.Sturk, watching by her noble Barney, it seemed, of course, a marvellous insensibility and an outrage.