The Curious Incident At Claridge's (2010)
The Curious Incident At Claridge's
“‘Or even twenty-five, if I take care. I am not in bad health. Nothing really wrong with me. Heart, liver, blood pressure, all perfectly tickety-boo. If I strike you as a bit off-colour at the moment, it’s because of this damned abscess thing, so tiresome. My big toe, would you believe it. Thought it was gout at first, that’s why I didn’t have my toe seen to sooner. I let it fester. That’s how my fool of a doctor put it.’ ‘Medical men are not what they used to be,’ the Master said with a sigh. ‘...My dentist is Chinese. He treats my teeth as though they were Hong Kong.’ ‘The abscess was caused by an ingrown nail. Perfectly idiotic, but I might have lost my toe, apparently. At my age it could have been fatal,’ Sir Seymour went on. ‘One more day and they might not have been able to save it—they would have had to amputate it or something. Terribly gruesome, I know. Reminds one of the worst excesses of the French revolution. Penelope was not particularly sympathetic, I am afraid.’ ‘I am sorry to hear that.’ ‘Not at all sympathetic.MoreLess
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