The things we do!

The girl laughs. "When little Egbert took hold of your sword, uncle, and
asked you how many people you had killed, do you know I had the same
question in my mind; and I thought when you went to the Drawing-room,
perhaps the King will knight him. But instead he knighted mamma's
apothecary, Sir Danby Jilks: that horrid little man, and I won't have you
knighted any more."
"I hope Egbert won't ask Sir Danby Jilks how many people HE has killed,"
says the Colonel, laughing; but thinking the joke too severe upon Sir
Danby and the profession, he forthwith apologises by narrating many
anecdotes he knows to the credit of surgeons. How, when the fever broke
out on board the ship going to India, their surgeon devoted himself to
the safety of the crew, and died himself, leaving directions for the
treatment of the patients when he was gone! What heroism the doctors
showed during the cholera in India; and what courage he had seen some of
them exhibit in action: attending the wounded men under the hottest fire,
and exposing themselves as readily as the bravest troops.


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