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Title: Peaceful personalities and warriors bold
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Villiers, Frederic, 1851-1922
Subjects: War correspondents
Publisher: London New York : Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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edit to Her Majesty the late Queen. And an excellent,airy, little hotel Dieii the Victoria hospital made.Here that estimable lady, assisted by Dr. Sieveking,looked after the sick and wounded. I remember alarge black cat, with a white tail, which haunted therooms in search of their former occupants, and wouldnever be reconciled to the present inhabitants. Hewas supposed by the nurses to have the malignantspirit of Achmed Arabi in him, and of a night wouldwail at the top of his voice over the fallen fortunesof the House. Poor Lady Strangford died in harness; she wasreturning from a short holiday in Europe to Cairo, onhospital work, and was seized with apoplexy on boardthe steamer. I first met her in Bulgaria, where shewas erecting shelters and hospitals for the wretchedsufferers from the cruelties of the Turkish irregulartroops, in 1876. It was a bitterly cold winter,nothing but snow and ice for nearly four months.The roads were execrable and almost impassable 70 o G^ > >i pi z S.
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Peaceful Personalities and Warriors Bold with the huge drifts, yet Lady Strangford wasmoving about the country superintending theerection of huts, and distributing funds for the reHcfof the poverty-stricken and sick refugees. I mether in many a miserable hovel, tendering relief to thewretched sufferers. It was in one of her hospitals in Turkey I metDr. Lamson, in charge of the sick, a man very muchrespected by his patients, and evidently of a kindlydisposition by the care he took of them. Yet thisman, a few years later, committed a most cruel andcold-blooded murder by administering aconite to hisbrother-in-law, a boy at school at the time. Thepoison was concealed in some sweets which he gaveto the lad while paying him an affectionate visit.When I think of the mild, amiable face of Lamsonas he attended the sick in Lady Strangfords hospi-tal, I can hardly reconcile the fact of the monstrousheartlessness of the murderer who, knowing theterrible sufferings his victim must be passing throu

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