But even that jack-in-office could perceive that the poor Captain thought of his sick wife up stairs, and his little children, ten times for one thought he ever gave to his own position.

And yet I must tell you that he would have no denial, but to know what it was that had killed his parent.

When old Dr.Diggory's hands were shaking so that his instrument would not bite on the thing lodged in his lordship's back, after passing through and through him, and he was calling for somebody to run for his assistant, who do you think did it for him, Miss Erema?
As sure as I sit here, the Captain! His face was like a rock, and his hands no less; and he said, 'Allow me, doctor.

I have been in action.' And he fetched out the bullet--which showed awful nerve, according to my way of thinking--as if he had been a man with three rows of teeth.
"'This bullet is just like those of my own pistol!' he cried, and he sat down hard with amazement.

You may suppose how this went against him, when all he desired was to know and tell the truth; and people said that of course he got it out, after a bottleful of doctors failed, because he knew best how it was put in.' "'I shall now go and see the place, if you please, or whether you please or not,' my master said.