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Updated: May 5, 2025
Yet at this time among "the dwarfs" of Burlington House then exhibiting was Millais, and contemporaneously with Dore in our midst, 1870-1, was Daubigny, whose tiniest canvases now fetch their thousands!
I have always felt that the winter of 1870-1 killed her, though she lived on for three years longer; it made her an old broken woman, and crushed her brave spirit. How often I have thought since: "If only I had not left her! I should have seen she was suffering, and should have saved her." One little chance help I gave her, on a brief visit to town.
The sergeant-major and his sister-in-law were invited to a fête which the military society, "The Fellow-Soldiers of 1870-1," were arranging in memory of the battle of St. Privat. The programme included music, theatricals, and dancing. Towards evening a fanfare of trumpets summoned the guests to the festival-play.
Red Cross societies organized themselves freely, everywhere, in all countries, in thousands of localities; and when the war of 1870-1 broke out, the volunteers set to work. Men and women offered their services. Thousands of hospitals and ambulances were organized; trains were started carrying ambulances, provisions, linen, and medicaments for the wounded.
With the almost sudden change of landscape woods, winding rivers, and hayfields in which peasants are getting in their autumn crop, literally mauve-tinted from the profusion of autumn crocuses we encounter sharp contrasts, the events of 1870-1 changing the French frontier, necessitating the transformation we now behold once quiet, old-world towns now wearing the aspect of a vast camp, everywhere to be seen military defences on a wholly inconceivable scale.
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