“Back from the dead,” whispered David, awed. “If you like being melodramatic about it, we’re bringing him back from the dead, I suppose,” said Dr. Boyle, lighting a cigarette, keeping his eyes on the drowned man’s face. “Did we or didn’t we?” “A matter of defining your terms,” said Boyle. It was obvious that the subject bored him. “Drowned men, electrocuted men, suffocated men, they’re usually perfectly good men — good lungs, good heart, kidneys, liver, everything in first-rate shape. They’re dead is all. If you catch a situation like that quick enough, sometimes you can do something with it.”
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