The String of Pearls (1850), p. 724

"He must be carried home," said the colonel. "Lend me some assistance, my brave fellows, to do so."
"No—no!" Ingestrie managed just to say faintly. "Take him—take him!"
He pointed to the man whom he had rescued, and the colonel immediately said,
"Make yourself easy about him, my dear friend. The sailors will carry him to the house, and if the vital spark has not quite fled, you shall have the pleasure of knowing that you have saved him. But it is yourself that I wish to have got home."
"Can you walk?" said Ben.
"I—don't think—I will try."
Poor Ingestrie did try, but he was really so completely exhausted by the efforts he had made, that it was quite evident that he was unequal to the task of walking along the shingle.
"Give it up," said Ben. "You can't do it."
"He must be carried," said the colonel.
"To be sure he must," said Ben; "and this is the way to do it."
With these words, Ben did not hesitate another moment, but taking Mark Ingestrie in his arms as though he had been an infant, he walked over the pebbly beach with him as easily as though he had been only a very ordinary kind of bundle to carry.
As he went on, it occurred to Ben that Johanna might see him carrying her husband home, and might imagine that some fearful accident had happened to him, so, by way of putting an end to that idea, he kept crying out as he got near the house—
"Here we are! All alive and kicking! It's only a joke. All alive—alive O! Here we are! it's only a joke ! All alive! alive! and ready for feeding time!"

CHAPTER CLXXI.
A RATHER IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IS MADE.

TheThe man, who appeared to be the only one at all—dead or alive—who was preserved from the wreck of the ship off the coast of Sussex, was carried to the house where all our friends were staying, and being taken into the kitchen, was there placed in the care of a couple of medical men, who were hastily sent for, and who quickly restored animation to the seemingly drowned person. It was reported to Ingestrie that the stranger was all right, and as he himself had by that time thoroughly recovered, and had changed his saturated apparel for a dry puit, the news gave him the liveliest satisfaction.
"Well," he said, "it is something that I have not gone through that tremendous surf in vain."
"Yes, Mark," said Johanna, with the tears starting to her eyes, "but we must, indeed, get away from the sea-coast, and then you cannot be tempted to expose your life in such adventures. Only think of what might be the consequences."
"Yes," said the colonel. " It is hardly fair, although, at the moment, one cannot help admiring the heroism of the act."
"I don't know how it can be avoided," said Ingestrie. "If you see a poor fellow struggling for his life, and you feel that you may save him at a little risk to yourself, it seems a strange thing not to do it."
"It does," said old Mr. Oakley, " and I should be the last to say no to the noble impulse; only if there are to be many storms off his coast, I shall second the resolution of Johanna that you ought to live somewhere else."
"And so shall I," said Arabella.