[With Frederick the Great by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookWith Frederick the Great CHAPTER 3: The Outbreak Of War 30/38
However, I will send a surgeon out, as soon as I get to the city." The lady was longer in her swoon than Fergus had expected, and the servants had returned before she opened her eyes. "Now," he said, "do four of you lend me your assistance.
It would be well to carry this sofa with your master into the next room; and then we will take your mistress in there, too, so that she will be spared seeing these ruffians scattered about, when she comes to herself." The doors leading to the adjoining apartment were opened, candles lighted there, and the wounded man carried in on his sofa. "And now for your mistress.
It will be easier to lift her out of the chair, and carry her in bodily." This he did, with the assistance of two of the servants. "Now," he said to the young girl, "do you stay by her, my brave maid.
I think she will recover in a minute or two.
Her eyelids moved as I brought her in.
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