Without Intending It; Or, John Tincroft, Bachelor and Benedict (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...that the excitement was over--had become deadly pale, when she pointed to one of the men on the sward, and hurriedly begged the unknown to render any aid in his power, He therefore turned his attention to this benevolent purpose, and while thus employed, the young woman stood at a little distance, watching his proceedings with anxiety, but apparently without fear; for her colour soon returned, and she stood firm, and even employed her hands in readjusting some disordered folds in her stout riding dress, still keeping her gaze fixed on the stranger. "Badly hurt-this one," said the stranger, as he raised the head of the man in whose cause he himself had received the blow which made him still feel dizzy, and who was a tall, well-made fellow, thirty years old or thereabout, in the ordinary dress of a labourer or shepherd of those parts. He had been not only savagely beaten, but had received an apparently deep knifewound above the collar-bone during the scuffle. "Badly hurt he seems to be," the stranger repeated. "Oh, I hope not " said the anxious watcher, stepping forward and stooping down to observe more closely. And then, without showing any signs of weakness or affectation, she rendered such assistance as time and place allowed, much as a nurse in a hospital would have done, the traveller thought, and with equal skill and presence of mind. In a moment or two the man revived sufficiently to open his eyes and to say, faintly, "Thank you, Miss Helen; and thank God you are safe-i was afraid it was all up with us both." "It would have been, Styles, but for this good man who came to our help," said the young woman. "He has done a good deed to-day, if he never did before," said the wounded man. "I sup...