I was seeking to disengage myself when I received a violent blow on the head.
The hands of the man with the cowl relaxed, and I swooned.
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE DOCTOR
Very irksome is the task which I have imposed upon myself.
Here again is one of the phases of my life which I wish to be able to utterly efface from my memory,—one of those moments of terrible vertigo, during which—
But the hour of this fatal revelation will arrive, alas, too soon!
Stunned by the blow which I had received, I swooned at the moment when the captain of the pirates fell into the sea.
When I revived I was in bed in my chamber, my head and shoulder enveloped in bandages.
Falmouth's physician, of whom I have forgotten to speak, a grave and very learned man, was near me.