He would have been a hardened wretch who could look on and not try to do something for them.
The sympathy of all went out to these sufferers, but the little town was already straitened from a long run on its benevolence.

I thought of the matter, of the lady's gift to me at Tasmania, which I had promised myself I would keep only as a loan, but found now, to my embarrassment, that I had invested the money.

However, the good Cooktown people wished to hear a story of the sea, and how the crew of the _Spray_ fared when illness got aboard of her.

Accordingly the little Presbyterian church on the hill was opened for a conversation; everybody talked, and they made a roaring success of it.

Judge Chester, the magistrate, was at the head of the gam, and so it was bound to succeed.