Murray Pier to landing.
"Under these circumstances, I felt myself free to exercise the right of the Private fueling, and to put off for the present writing my letter to you, for I still felt angry with you for deserting your post in the presence of the Garrison with its large foreign Community and at a time when we might at any moment have to fight for the honour of England, France, and China.
"In my letter of 11 November, 1884, I sold you my thoughts for their honour - I would far rather die here than quit my post under such circumstances.
"Jone, because of you.
"MOUNT MASCAL,
BEXLEY,
KENT.
"I was in good health and only complained of a sore knee, and the night you showed the words of the telegram you intended to send to Force Argos asking for two months' sick leave to Japan, I dined like a city alderman, having swallowed large helpings of turtle soup and everything else in keeping, while I, who was slowly recovering from an attack of dysentery that had nearly filled me, had to observe the strictest regimen so as to keep at my duty instead of going away for a change of air as the doctors warned me to do. I had dismissed the Parsee Doctors and the Hospital orderly from my bedside, so as to prevent the Principal Medical Officer putting me on the sick list. The day before I did this, Doctor Pike, M.D., assured me that my existing condition might kill me if I attempted to get out of bed; the effort of doing this now is not ...
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