"Thank you: I shall do: I have no broken bones,--only a sprain ;" and again he stood up and tried his foot, but the result extorted an involuntary "Ugh!" It came to pass, that in the ambergris affair Stubb's after-oarsman chanced so to sprain his hand, as for a time to become quite maimed; and, temporarily, Pip was put into his place. Daughtry had first diagnosed it as a sprain of a tendon. It was a very obstinate sprain ; the swelling would not go down, and the pain still continued. "Pride does go before a fall, but I wonder if a sprained ankle always comes after it?"