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His mind was picturing that same coronation the shattered, roofless cathedral, the ruins of the ancient and magnificent high altar, the multitude of kneeling, famine-scourged people, the battle-worn, wounded and bandaged soldiery! And the King! And his father! Where had his father stood when the King was crowned?
It was to see if he could get 'a portion' some of his property, or perhaps rather some little store of food to take back to the famine-scourged city, which, he knew, would soon be again at starvation-point. Jeremiah calls it in plain words what it was 'a lie' and protests his innocence of any such design.
That devoted town and its neighbourhood were amongst the earliest, if not the very earliest, of the famine-scourged districts; and their story was well and feelingly told by special correspondents, and, above all, by Dr. Donovan, the principal local physician, whose duties placed him in the midst of the sufferers.
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