I wanted to do something, even if it was only to get killed." "You must not talk like that," she said kindly; "your life is as valuable as any here, and you know that we all like and esteem you; and, at any rate, you have shown today that you have plenty of courage." "The courage of a Malay running amuck, Mrs.Doolan; that is not courage, it is madness.

You cannot tell--no one can tell--what I have suffered since the siege began.

The humiliation of knowing that I alone of the men here am unable to take my part in the defense, and that while others are fighting I am useful only to work as a miner." "But you are as useful in that way as you would be in the other," she said.

"I don't feel humiliated because I can only help in nursing the sick while the others are fighting for us.

We have all of us our gifts.
Few men have more than you.