It is but a flesh wound, I know; but I am feeling faint, and am sure that it is keeping on bleeding.
"Here, my girl," he said to the one who had before assisted, "I can trust to you not to faint." With her assistance he took off his coat, the arm of which was saturated with blood.
"You had better cut off the sleeve of the shirt," he said.
This was done, and the nature of the wound was seen.

A ball had ploughed through the flesh three inches below the shoulder, inflicting a gaping but not serious wound.
"It is lucky that it was not the inside of the arm," he said to the girl, as she bandaged it up; "for had it been, I should have bled to death in a very few minutes.
"Has the count opened his eyes yet ?" "No, sir.

He is lying just as he was." "What is the gentleman's name ?" "Count Eulenfurst." "You had better give me a draught of wine, before I start.

I feel shaken, and it is possible that riding may set my wound bleeding again." Having drunk a goblet of wine, Fergus went down and mounted his horse.

As he did so, he said to one of the men: "Take a lantern, and go down to the spot where the road hither turns off from the main road.