in the event , tom returned with the landlord 's wife , bearing a moist cloth full of sliced , charred onions , which she applied , with many expressions of sympathetic horror ( punctuated by loud expressions of astonishment as to how such a kind , sweet horse as our bedelia , and her so gentle a soul as could have given our lord a ride into jerusalem , might ever have come to give the gentleman such a cruel toss , which made fraser grind his teeth audibly ) , to the sufferer 's shoulder , leaving the more delicate application to tom .