I cried, falling upon my knees, "we shall be killed-killed by our deliverers!"
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
He looked at me with as much amazement as pity, and, grateful as I was for this universal sympathy, I felt almost ashamed of the miserable condition in which I came amongst my deliverers.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
For a moment the abject, frightened face that he had for a few moments seen shrinking from him before its owner concealed it with her trembling brown fingers, when she was transferred from the Sultan's to his own boat, was there before him; when Helen had uttered a loud, piteous cry as she recognised one of her deliverers.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn