French Widow:
[referring to smoking] Disgusting habit!
French Cavalry Officer: But a very useful one sometimes. A friend of mine, Captain Chavasse of the Foreign Legion, leg half shot off. No anesthetic. Smoked a pipe all through the operation. Never felt a thing.
Inspector Valentine: Good lord. What was he smoking?
French Cavalry Officer: Opium.
--Eugene Deckers (as French Cavalry Officer) in Father Brown
French Cavalry Officer: But a very useful one sometimes. A friend of mine, Captain Chavasse of the Foreign Legion, leg half shot off. No anesthetic. Smoked a pipe all through the operation. Never felt a thing.
Inspector Valentine: Good lord. What was he smoking?
French Cavalry Officer: Opium.
--Eugene Deckers (as French Cavalry Officer) in Father Brown