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m the bottom of his soul, and spat luxuriously all the time. The mud was beyond anything that one could imagine. There was a sea of it everywhere, and men waded knee-deep in

them with a stick, and drove them in front of him. Sometimes he took out a revolver and fired over the men's heads, making them jump; but nothing makes them really work. We pushed on for a mile or two, and then stuck again. This time there

supper at 8 o'clock, but kept us waiting till 10 p.m., and then a terrible repast of batter appeared in a big tin dish, and everyone except me ate it, and everyone drank my w

ick all the time until I could neither think nor

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sick. Of course we punctured a tyre, which delayed us, and when we got into Kasvin it was 9 o'clock. The Tartar lifted me out of the car, and I had been told that I might put up at a room belonging to Dr. Smitkin, but where it was I had no idea, and I knew there would b

ne thing I wanted was food, and this they could only get at the soldiers' mess two miles away. So all I had was one tin of sweet Swiss milk. The day after this I decided I must quit, what

never forget it as long as I live-the blessed change from dirty glasses and tin basins and a rocky bed! What does illness matter with a pretty room, and kindne

these go

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eek ago, you saw a poor small person (who has shrunk to about half her size!) in an empty room, feeling worth nothing at all, and getting nothing to eat and no attention! Persia isn't the country to be

all have to flounder about on awful roads in motor-cars, which break down and have to

ics? So did I! I have been in deep

have been a lot bigger, for the Germans were brib

dear C

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cnaug

you think of me,

t. As a great treat I have been allowed to go to church

Julia Ke

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ay? It will be nice to see you all and have a holiday, and then I hope to come out to Russia again. Did I tell you I have been ill, but am now being nur

o the reception on his birthday. All the time I've lain in bed or in the garden, but as I have

imroses and violets and Lent lilies, but I

most

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ful roads and a chain of mountains always under snow. Then I have to cross the lumpy Caspian Sea, and I shall rest at Baku two nights before beginning the four days journey

ALES

endidly, and I never drank so much medicine in

rap of flannel, and if a bit of bacon comes into the town there is a st

s as

and am pretty tired when dressing is finished. Then I sit in the garden and have my lunch there, and after lunch I lie down fo

always brisk, and getting through a heap of work-beginning my day early and ending it late. And now there

propriate time to depart. I wish I could give my life for some boy who would like to live very much, and to who

away, but it would have been far better than being left till all the lights are out. I could have said truly to the Giver of t

f the

the story

for her to travel any later in the season. The long journey seemed a sufficiently hazardous undertaking for a person in her weak

ING F

urney home. He found an escort for her in the shape of an English missionary who was going to Petrograd, and gave her a pass which enabled her to travel as expeditiously as possible. Th

hardly bear to think of the suffering it caused her. A few incidents stood out in her memory from the indeterminate recoll

with the train service to England, I do not know. A "Russian" vessel was due to leave in a couple of hours' time, but for some reason Miss Macnaughtan was obliged to walk three-quarters of a mile to get permission to go by it. We can never forget her

trograd, where her escort was obliged to leave her

me considerable distance over a frozen lake to reach the ship. She was hobbling along, leaning heavily on

emed overwhelming difficulties, and when she had in her charge a very sick man, a kind stranger came to the rescue

he had been his mother, and he actually altered all his plans on arriving in England, and brought her to the very door of her house in Norfolk Street. Without his help I sometimes wonder whether my aunt would have succeeded in reaching hom

L IN E

were not spent in a foreign land but among her own people, surrounded by all the care and comfort that love could supply. Two of her sisters were with her a

care could save her. The seeds of her illness had probably been sown some years before, during a shooting trip in Kashmir, and

he expedition. Her maid had a premonition that the enterprise wo

d, and Miss Macnaughtan's first words to her old servant on h

o her library for a few hours in the afternoon, but even that amount of exerti

ad a vision of pale blue ribbons, and soft laces, and lovely flowers, and then one forgot everything else as one looked at the dear face framed in such soft grey hair. She looked so fragile that one fancied she might b

mallest things her interest and sympathy were as fresh as ever. A new dress worn b

being chosen to be a Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Any recognition of her good w

hat she had such a little time to live. She managed all her own business affairs, personally dictated or wrote an

s written after her return to England. They were addressed

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folk S

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es

rest o

I have to lie in bed for six weeks and live on milk diet for eight weeks. The illness is of a tropical nature, and one of

ehran. One saw some most interesting phases of the war, a

nt me of my littl

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folk S

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d your kind letters. I am sure that people's good

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Baby and Julia both in town, so they are constant

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er fo

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e plans fell through. It became increasingly clear that the traveller was about to embark on that last journey from which there is no return, and, indeed, towards the end

on the hill, the great Weald stretches away to the south, and fruit-trees surround the Hallowed Acre. But even as they laid earth to earth and dust to dust in this peaceful spot the boom

E IN CHA

th its beautiful grey cross, and the children growing up in the parish will

by Word and Deed,

r Country eve

be the ghosts of a purity, a kindness, and of a love for h

LUSI

nd a slight sketch of Miss Macnaughtan's character

called by telegram from Northamptonshire to the headquarters of my Voluntary Aid Detachment in Kent, and spent a night in town en route, to get uniform, etc. Certainly at my aunt's

we could do. There were uniforms to buy, notes of Red Cross lectures to "rub up," and, in my a

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housekeeping, and usually gave one rather perfect food, on this occasion she said how impossible it was for her to indulge in anything but necessaries, when our soldiers would so

It did not seem clear whether my Voluntary Aid Detachment was going to provide billets for a

," she cried. "If you can't get a bed, come bac

l she made up her mind that no lack of money, time, or strength should ever prevent her doing an

k in Belgium, especially at the soup-kitchen, I believe it is impossible to say too much. According to The Times, "Th

ded Belgian to whom my aunt gave my address before she left for Russia that he might have someone with whom he might correspond

who got more quickly into touch with an audience. As I saw it expressed in one of the papers "Stiffness and depression vanished from any company when she to

r, but showed people at home how far re

ront," she used to tell them. "I am a woman, but I know what I would do

s Macnaughtan. She never sent a message of sympathy or a gift of

cort of his old yacht's skipper, and a journey to the Argentine in those days was a big undertaking for a delicate young girl. On another occasion she was in Switzerland w

ble I always go at o

see what she could do for a woman who had begged from her in the street-yes, and go

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delicate woman, and there did not seem to be much scope for her services in Russia. She was not a qualified nurse, and the distance from home, and the handicap of her ignorance of the Russian language, would probably have prevented her

answer comes still to teach us the underlying meaning and beauty of

ing, she gave her strength, her money, her very life. The precious ointment was poured

vacity, the humour which was "without a touch of cynicism"; others, to her inexhaustible spirit, her geniality, and the "powers of sarcasm, which she

a "double entendre" fell flat when she was there. She was the least priggish person in the world, but no one who knew her could doubt for an instant her transparent goodness. I have read every word of her diary; there is not

ully. Her devotion to her father and to her eldest brother influenced her whole life, and

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sonality to command universal affection. Among her friends were people of the most varied dispositions and circumstances. Distinction of birth, position, or intellect appealed to her, and she was always glad to meet a celebrity, but distinction was no p

ture of every kind. She was an ambitious woman, and a brilliantly clever one, and her clearness of perception and wonderful intuition gave her a quick grasp of a subject or idea. She had a thirst for knowledge which made learning easy, but hers was the brain of the poet and philosopher, not of the mathematician. Accuracy of thought or information was often lacking. Her ima

rve her fellow-beings animated her whole life, and it seemed to her rather hard to be found fault

ater in life, when she lived so much alone, she did not always see that difficulties which appeared nothing to her might be almost insuperable to other people, and that in houses where there are several members of a family to be considered, no

wn sorrows but for the sorrows of others. Only those who appealed to her in trouble knew the depth of her sympathy, and how absolutely she share

IOUS

greatest things there was never a struggle between conscience and inclination in which conscience was not victorious. As she grew older, I fancy

r, and her sister would go down to the drawing-room and play the simple hymns they had sung together in childhood. And on the last Sunday, the day before her death, when the invalid lay in a stupor and

which divide us from the unknown shore, and she told her sisters afterwards that she had almost seemed to see over to the "other s

as purely physical. The brave spirit was ready to go, and as the music of her favourite hymn pierced her consciousness when she lay dying, so s

dark vale

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