only-that

Updated: May 29, 2025

"For saving Captain Bezan's life; for otherwise he had been shot." "But why do you care so much about it, sister?" asked the boy, seriously. "O, nothing, only-that is, you know, Ruez, we owe Captain Bezan so much ourselves for having hazarded his life for us all."

Maturin Murray Ballou - The Heart's Secret; Or, the Fortunes of a Soldier: a Story of Love and the Low Latitudes.