A widow's reminiscences of the siege of Lucknow [by K.M. Bartrum]. |
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alarm Allahabad amongst anxiety anxious arrowroot artillery attached Husband August babe Bagh Bartrum bearers Benares Boileau bright Calcutta camp Cawnpore cheer cholera Clark comfort commenced Darby darling dear Robert dearest dearest K death Delhi Dinapore doolie dreadful dress enemy England escape escort Father fear and trembling fearful feel fire Fyzabad garrison Gonda Goruckpore guns heard heart heat Himalaya hope January June killed kind ladies letters little baby little darling little fellow look loop-holed Lord loved Lucknow mercy miles morning native never night November officers Outram palanquins party Polehampton poor little punkah reached regiment relief river round safety scarcely scene Secrora Secundra Secundra Bagh sepoys September shot siege SIEGE OF LUCKNOW Sikh Sir Henry Lawrence sleep soon sorrow spared spirit station suffered things thought to-day told trouble trust voyage weary widow wife and child wounded
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Page 48 - Oh, should my gentle child be spared to manhood's years like me, A holier and a wiser man I trust that he will be : And when I look into his eyes, and stroke his thoughtful brow, I dare not think what I should feel, were I to lose him now.
Page 34 - And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine.
Page 41 - There is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying.
Page 72 - Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of Thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain ; he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope : truly my hope is even in Thee.
Page 97 - ... seen. This could not last ; so we bored through the wall of the shed into the courtyard behind, and two of us went cautiously out to reconnoitre. For some time the sepoys did not see us, as it was getting dark. About fifty yards off was a mosque, with no one in it, as I found by creeping on all-fours into it ; but before we could get the wounded out we were discovered. We now ran back to the shed. However, we had in the interval secured a chatty of excellent water belonging to the sepoys. And...
Page 45 - it is strange !" and turned round and went out of the room. Then the thought struck me : Something has happened which they do not like to tell me ! But this was agony too great almost to endure, to hear that he had been struck down at our very gates.
Page 12 - Good bye dear Kate, keep up your spirits, we shall soon meet again, and take care of my little darling.
Page 13 - there are so many bad people about, we are going to fight for you." And so we journeyed on throughout that weary night with hearts fearful and trembling. At eight on Monday morning we overtook the party who had preceded us : they were all on the other side of the river, and we followed them, crossing in hoats.
Page 94 - Hindustannee, telling us that in a few minutes we should be massacred ; they were not more than five yards off, but round the corner, and sheltered from our fire. At this time we expected instant death ; it seemed incredible that ten effective men could resist 1,000, who were firing a fearful hail of shot through the windows. Three of our number inside were struck down wounded, and this diminished our fire. The sepoys all this time were massacring the...
Page 97 - And what a prize it was! The wounded were dying with thirst , and we, who had been biting cartridges all day , were .just as bad. It gave us one good draught all round , and after it we felt twice the men we did before. Being a long shed , we had a great deal to defend ; but luckily the sepoys found out that if they could fire through the roof, so could we, with the advantage of knowing exactly where they were by the noise of their feet ; so they kept off the roof. We now organized our defence, told...