The children waited in silence.
"Of course, he IS bad," she continued, "and he will be.

It's a great shock, and he's lost a lot of blood; and, of course, it IS a very dangerous smash.

It's not at all sure that it will mend so easily.

And then there's the fever and the mortification--if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.

But there, he's a clean-blooded man, with wonderful healing flesh, and so I see no reason why it SHOULD take bad ways.