Chapter 24: A Kidnapping and No Great Harm

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌⁠Ladies who have the pride of delicate breeding are not more than rather violently hurled back on the fortress it is, when one or other of the gross mishaps of circumstance may subject them to a shock: and this happening in the presence of gentlemen, they are sustained by the within and the without to keep a smooth countenance, however severe their affliction. Men of heroic nerve decline similarly