[A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman]@TWC D-Link bookA Dream of the North Sea CHAPTER IV 19/19
Penn, George Fox, and General Gordon--these are among the salt of the earth. So the young man slept on, and the good folk who had come through peril as well, talked of him until I think his dreams must have been coloured with their praises.
The wounded seamen were carefully bestowed, and Tom Betts crawled out to greet them. When Marion went down to see Withers, she said, "I was so grieved to see how you had to be thrown about; but never mind, I have made up my mind that very few more men shall suffer like that.
Now sleep, and the doctor shall see you when he has rested--at least, I know he will." Then Withers took Miss Dearsley's hand in his brown, ragged, cracked paw, and kissed it--which is offence number three against the proprieties.
But then you know the soldiers used to kiss Florence Nightingale's shadow! Didn't they? .
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