"I saw a man behaving like a madman, and naturally went to pull him down.
However, I shall think better of him in future, though I doubt whether he was in his right senses." "He wanted to be killed," the Doctor said quietly; "and the effort that he made to place himself in the way of death must have been greater than either you or I can well understand, Forster.

I know the circumstances of the case.

Morally I believe there is no braver man living than he is; physically he has the constitution of a timid woman; it is mind against body." "The distinction is too fine for me, Doctor," Forster said, as he turned to go off to his post by the parapet.

"I understand pluck and I understand cowardice, but this mysterious mixture you speak of is beyond me altogether." The Major and Dr.Wade lifted Bathurst and carried him below.

Mrs.
Hunter, who had been appointed chief nurse, met them.
"Is he badly wounded, Doctor ?" "No; he is not wounded at all, Mrs.Hunter.He stood up at the edge of the parapet and exposed himself so rashly to the Sepoys' fire that we had to drag him away, and then the reaction, acting on a nervous temperament, was too much for him, and he fainted.