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Marshman alone, and suffering from melancholy more and more, as well as much harassed by difficulties as to the resources, and by captious complaints from home. In 1836, a great shock was given to his nerves by the danger of his daughter. She was the wife of Lieutenant Henry Havelock, a young officer, who, deeply impressed by Dr.
Then, leaving Neill with three hundred men in Cawnpore, he prepared to cross the Ganges, now terribly swollen by the late rains, into the kingdom of Oude, of which Lucknow is the capital. Not for a moment did Havelock make light of the difficulties that lay before him.
Cited by Havelock Ellis, Psychology of Sex, pp. 233-4. Conduct and its Disorders, pp. 368-9. Psychopathia-Sexualis, pp. 9-11. Lost and Hostile Gospels, Preface. Cited by James, Varieties, pp. 345-6. Inge, Christian Mysticism, pp. 201-9. See Ellis, Psychology of Sex, pp. 240-2. Parkman's Jesuits in North America, p. 175. Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia-Sexualis, p. 8.
'Your excellency, I have brought you the man, said Grant to lord Canning as he presented Havelock, and the command of the 64th and the 78th Highlanders was entrusted to him. These last he knew well, as they had been with him in Persia, and he thought them 'second to none' in the service.
The 'Secretary of the Interior, who had been compelled to leave his college, assured me that if wiser counsels prevail Liberia will abandon her old Japanese policy of exclusion, and will open her ports to European capital and enterprise. At Sierra Leone I called upon Governor Havelock, who was recovering from the accident of a dislocated shoulder.
Writing to his wife on the same night, Havelock said: "One of the prayers oft repeated throughout my life has been answered, and I have lived to command in a general action.... We fought, and in ten minutes' time the affair was decided.... But away with vain glory! Thanks to God Almighty, who gave me the victory." Day, after day, the men fought and marched marched and fought.
He removed his hat and havelock, revealing a grand head covered with waving brown hair, and a handsome face all aglow with intelligence. His eyes were a dark, wine-brown, his glance as keen and straight as an eagle's, his manner and bearing betraying that he was accustomed to mingle with people of culture and refinement. The Stranger Welcomed.
A few days later Sir Henry Havelock, the hero of the first relief, died from an attack of dysentery from which he had long been suffering, and his body was buried under a wide-spreading tree in the park. The tomb of Havelock is a sacred spot to all soldiers. A lofty obelisk marks the resting place of one of the noblest of men and one of the bravest and ablest of soldiers.
But Havelock noted the first sign of flagging as his men were marching across the ploughed fields heavy with wet, and knew that they needed the spur of excitement. 'Come, who is to take that village, the Highlanders or the Sixty-fourth? cried he, and before the words were out of his mouth there was a rush forwards, and the village was taken. Still, even now the battle of Cawnpore was not ended.
It is rarely that a career so obscured by adverse fortune through all its course blazes into such sunset splendour just at the last hour of life's day. Those months which made the fame of Havelock had been filled with crime and horror.
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