Joly frowns. "You know, I'm still not entirely sure how that worked? Feuilly! Feuilly, listen, you're good with maps. There was the lake, right? And then the castle, we were telling you about the castle. The cup and the spear and all, very--who's Perceval?" That's directed to Bossuet, though only distractedly. Joly did not really read at all the right books growing up.
"--Anyway, the old man running the place--everyone called him a king, you know, but I think he was out fishing when we got there, he didn't--he didn't look like a king? I think it was a little like,like when old soldiers have their families calling them General, you know? Bit of flattery? But it was a castle, so who can say. But Kings usually have their own physicians! And this old fellow, he had a horrible wound right in a very, er, delicate place, you know? Why, no one had even bound it up, it was bleeding like anything. Of course I talked to him, patched it up as best I could with what we had there. I told them, if they'd wait until morning, I'd try to come back here and get more supplies, and I would have, of course!-- Except, well. Er."
Now that he comes to think of it "But in the evening the entire household left, with the house" sounds a bit ridiculous. But how else to say it?
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Date: 2016-03-18 03:40 pm (UTC)"--Anyway, the old man running the place--everyone called him a king, you know, but I think he was out fishing when we got there, he didn't--he didn't look like a king? I think it was a little like,like when old soldiers have their families calling them General, you know? Bit of flattery? But it was a castle, so who can say. But Kings usually have their own physicians! And this old fellow, he had a horrible wound right in a very, er, delicate place, you know? Why, no one had even bound it up, it was bleeding like anything. Of course I talked to him, patched it up as best I could with what we had there. I told them, if they'd wait until morning, I'd try to come back here and get more supplies, and I would have, of course!-- Except, well. Er."
Now that he comes to think of it "But in the evening the entire household left, with the house" sounds a bit ridiculous. But how else to say it?