I think she was a spiritual relative of Joan of Arc and Madame Roland.

It seems dreadful to say so, but I am not sure that she would not have played Charlotte Corday's part had occasion arisen.

In low, full tones she asked, "Did no one ever work among the fishers before Mr.Fullerton found them out ?" "No one, except the fellows who sold vile spirits, my dear," said Blair.
"Not a single surgeon ?" "Not one.

That's why we decided to kidnap Ferrier.

We want to give him a proper school of surgery to practise in--genuine raw material, and plenty of it, and you must help us to keep him in order.