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Her lover, poor boy, was killed in the Crimea. There! Forgive me if I have made you sad. Death is not really sad, you know, where there is love. People talk of it as if it conquered love, whereas it is in fact all the other way round. Love conquers death." Muriel hid her face suddenly on Daisy's shoulder. "Oh, are you quite sure?" she whispered. "I am quite sure, darling."
The Crimea, the dreadful winter, the punishment administered to their common enemy, occupied him exclusively. But with the fourth bottle he became more communicative. "You owe a long candle to your saint for your luck to-day in meeting me," he said, with a slight hiccup. "Ah! how so?" "Had not I been there to give you protection you would now be under lock and key in the depôt of the Prefecture."
"And what do you want done? I have no wish to bring myself within reach of the English law." "It is an English officer. He is here just now, but will presently return to the Crimea." "What is his name?" asked Benito, eagerly, his black heart inflamed with a wild hope of revenge. "McKay Stanislas McKay, of the Royal Picts." It was his name!
This is no place for you." "I came to save him; he is in pressing danger," said the boy, whose large eyes were now filled with tears. "Does he know you are in the Crimea?" "I have been unable to find him. I lost all my money; it was stolen from me directly I landed, and, if I had not found this place with the black woman, I should have starved." "Poor child!
What she accomplished in those years of unknown labour could, indeed, hardly have been more glorious than her Crimean triumphs, but it was certainly more important. The true history was far stranger even than the myth. In Miss Nightingale's own eyes the adventure of the Crimea was a mere incident scarcely more than a useful stepping-stone in her career.
Sicily, Egypt, and the Crimea were the countries which principally supplied Attica with this necessary article. As the voyage from Sicily was the shortest, as well as exposed to the least danger, the arrival of vessels with corn from this island always reduced the price; but there does not appear to have been nearly such quantities brought either from it or Egypt, as from the Crimea.
Could its capture have lessened in any way the power or resources of the Russian Government, or, by creating a diversion, have attracted attention from the decisive struggle in the Crimea, it would perhaps have been justifiable; but it could not possibly have any direct or indirect influence upon the ultimate result, and only brought misery upon a few inoffensive Kamchadals who had never heard of Turkey or the Eastern Question and whose first intimation of a war probably was the thunder of the enemy's cannon and the bursting of shells at their very doors.
Again, the short-sighted policy which sent to the Crimea 20,000 British soldiers to play second instrument in concert with 40,000 Frenchmen, thus lowering us in the eyes of Europe, made Nelson oppose his 960 hands to more than eight times their number. The day may come when the attack shall be repeated.
The Turks having repulsed the Russian armies on the Danube, the allies resolved to invade the peninsula of the Crimea, and make an assault upon the Russian fortress of Sebastopol. The great fortress was a standing menace to Turkey; and to effect its destruction seemed the likeliest means of humbling Russia and bringing the war to a close.
There was a talk some two or three years ago of putting up a monument on Cathcart Hill to the Englishmen who died in the Crimea; and that at least would have been some token of remembrance, even if we could not collect the scattered remains of our slain sons, as the French have done, but then that monument would have cost £5000. How could England afford £5000?
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