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A. Friends Lady's Diary At Home Of . The...
which to expand , being able to hold a larger circuit of fortification . On September 30 th , the lady writes thus : —
" Three months to-day since the battle of Chinhut and commencing of if our he siege will . eve I r finished have it my ! I darling have done little a nep great hew deal ' s frock of wo to rk -day during —oh , the I wonder siege
; besides dear Chip ' s frock I made a flannel-shirt for poor Mr . Polehanipton , two ditto for for Henry myself O , ' besides Dowde _, bab a j y umper -things for for Captain the siege Weston babies , a born dress in for this Mrs house . D . } .
' ' We bought some very pretty cups and saucers to-day from a soldier of the 90 th . The Ferreed Bux was full of china and all sorts of valuable thingsand the soldiers are constantly offering articles for sale . I got a
, prize in the shape of seven pairs of thread stockings , which I much needed . " And on October 1 : —
other " Both ; the poor bab Mrs y was . Ouseley born ' the s children same die day d to as -day little , within Percy ten B . ; minutes the other of each was two years : they are first cousins of Sir Frederic ' s . "
Think , Oh reader , who sittest at home at ease , that each of these poor children , who dropped off in the heat of that Indian summer ,
was as precious as thy well-tended darling * in its cot , and learn to say with a deeper meaning , " From plague , pestilence , and famine ,
from battle , murder , and from sudden death , good Lord deliver us !" On October 7 th ;—" Our rations are considerably reduced , and we
often leave off dinner as hungry as when we _beg-an . Poor Mr . Thornhill died ; he was wounded the day " October after 12 the , Monday _jreinforce . -
lost ments her arrive first d , bab and y lost about his a arm week and before his ri : g they ht eye were ; his marrie poor d little last wife January only . Dr . Fayrer is ill with fever .
" October 30 . pounder " We came have throug been besieged h our unfortunate four months room to again -day , . which This we morning flattered an our 18-
-panel selves of was the so do safe or , , and and knocked which we the had whole made of the so barricade comfortable down . It , broke upsetting the everything . My dressing-table was sent flying through the door , and if the
where shot had Emil come usuall a little sits earlier to nurse , my head bab would was smashed have gone flat with : fortunatel it . The box she was spending y the day y with Mrs . Brydon y or she would probablhave been y in
, y . the James room boug . ht There some p was lated a dishes sale to a -day great of bargain Colonel : they Halford wil _' s l be property very useful , and to us if we ever _$ et up house again in India . "
But space fails us in endeavoring to do justice to this most interesting book , full of touching incidents as it is . No part of it
is , perhaps , more wonderful than the evidence it gives of the bravery of the women . The perpetual presence of death in its most terrible
forms , by gunshot wounds , by cholera cramp , by exhaustion from heat and insufficient food ; these things were borne with heroic
nerves . Widows , whose husbands were just struck down ; wives , who lived in hourly fear of anguish , all seem to have submitted
quietly , patiently ; and yet over all was hanging that dark cloud of personal danger , which might ere long consign themselves and their
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/57/