You have courage and coolness in other ways, and you are wrong to care nothing for your life because of the failing, for which you are not accountable, of your nerves to stand the sound of firearms..

I can understand your feelings and sympathize with you, but it is of no use to exaggerate the importance of such a matter.

You might live a thousand lives without being again in a position when such a failing would be of the slightest importance, one way or the other.

Now come in with me.

Certainly this is not the moment for you to give way about it; for whatever your feelings may have been, or whatever may have impelled you to the act, you have on this occasion fought nobly." "Not nobly, Mrs.Doolan," he said, rising to his feet; "desperately, or madly, if you like." At this moment Wilson came out.