Ingenious pain by Andrew Miller

Author:Andrew Miller [Miller, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Surgeons
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1997-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

was sure he knew what he was about. He said — 'Shall I live?' - Dyer answered that he would as the limb had come ojf neatly and there was not much stuff in the wound. The Captain thanked him, and we were on the point of getting him below when an enemy ball struck the mizzen mast, spraying the Quarter Deck with splinters, one of which struck me in the eye.

Beyond that point I can tell you very little. I thought at first I was killed and yet somehow I got below, as did Captain Reynolds who, as Dyer prophesied, survived the battle and retired as a Yellow Flag Admiral. For the battle itself well. Sir, you know how that fell out, and the consequences for poor Admiral Byng. The Enemy broke off the action and fell away to leeward, that they might reform their line out of range of our guns. They were faster than us and there was no signal ffom the Admiral to chase. In truth, our ships were badly mauled, and though, with an Anson or a Hawke, we should no doubt have pressed on, at the time we were glad enough of a respite. Certainly no one may accuse the English sailors of wanting the stomach for a fight. They are endlessly brave. I do not believe they ever think of being killed. They live only in the instant. The future is nothing to them.

I left the ship at Gibraltar, together with the Captain and those of the crew too poorly to face the rigours of the homeward passage. The last occasion on which I saw your friend was when I was carried past the dispensary and happened to look in with my one good eye and see him there apparently dissecting a human hand. But as I was somewhat feverish, I may have been mistaken. Yet, now I think of it, that was not quite the last time, for I saw him once in London, near Temple Bar, almost two years later, walking with an older gentleman, somewhat gross, whom Mrs Fisher assured me was one of the famous Hunter brothers.

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