Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


I should not like to have Mr. Pike for my surgeon. He probed for the
bullet with his little finger, which was far too big for the
aperture; and with his little finger, while with his other hand he
threatened another ear-clout, he gouged out the leaden pellet. Then
he sent the boy below, where Margaret took him in charge with
antiseptics and dressings.


I see her so rarely that a half-hour alone with her these days is an
adventure. She is busy morning to night in keeping her house in
order. As I write this, through my open door I can hear her laying
the law down to the men in the after-room. She has issued
underclothes all around from the slop-chest, and is ordering them to
take a bath in the rain-water just caught. And to make sure of their
thoroughness in the matter, she has told off Louis and the steward to
supervise the operation. Also, she has forbidden them smoking their
pipes in the after-room. And, to cap everything, they are to scrub
walls, ceiling, everything, and then start to-morrow morning at
painting. All of which serves to convince me almost that mutiny does
not obtain and that I have imagined it.

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