The Story of Two Noble Lives Vol. 2 Being Memorials of Charlotte Countess Canning and Louisa Marchioness of Waterford - neues Buch

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VI. THE INDIAN MUTINY. " Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day ? From morn to night, my friend." ?christina Rossktti. " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence, live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their vast persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world." ?Georgk Eliot. Viscountess Canning.?-Journal Letter to her Mother, Grandmother, ami Aunts. "Calcutta, May 12, 1857.?I returned this evening from Barrackpore, having gone there for two days, a little grumbling at C. for not giving himself even that change of air and semblance of holiday; but I found things not so quiet as when I had gone away. A telegraph had come telling of a violent outbreak of the VOL. IL,6l L 3rd cavalry at Meerut, after the imprisonment of the eighty-five men who had refused the cartridges dealt out, and been tried by court-martial and sentenced to be publicly put in irons, imprisoned, and sent to work on the roads and ten years' hard labour. I never saw this telegraph, but it told of burning houses and fighting, and that the telegraph wire was cut, and the men escaped towards Delhi, and that they had released their comrades. It is by far the worst outbreak that has yet occurred. All the prisoners are also released, desperate characters, and I believe at least fifteen hundred of them."1 "May 13.?In the morning a merchant brought a quantity of native ornaments for us to choose from to be sent to the treasury for presents. C. came u...