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JUSSERAND LES grands carnagcs internationaux se falsaient plus'rares, la force brutale plus dilliciles ; d'aucuns commencment a du passe ; des accords ax'aicnt ete signes admettant que de comme d'homme a homme, pourrait régner la Justice. , les tI‘IO'I'nphCS de les cr01re Choses pcuple a peuple, . , Dans le passe, les ferocites barbarcs ', dans l'avenir, la Justlcez A la Belgique, petite par le tcrritoire, grande par le ceeur, laborieuse3 lettree, stricte obscrvatricc des traites, pays dc travailieurs, de penseurs, d art1stes, aux \‘illes celebres par leur industrie ct leur beaute', Liege ou naqu1t Gretry, Louvain ou professa Vesale, Anvers oh Rubens mourut, l'alternative fut ofl‘erte. l'rendrait-elle parti pour le passe ou pour l'avenir ; pour la Force Brutale ou la Justice E La Force Brutale etait debout, avec ses promesses et scs menaces: serait-ce la tranquillité, la prospérite'gla soumissmn; ou serait-ce 1es ravages, les executions sanglantes, les de'vastations, peut-étre By THE BARONESS ORCZY SUNLIGHT AND SHADOWS Being Extracts from the Diary of Nurse Bellamy of the Voluntary Aid Delve/111113111 at Lac/rock October 14111. MY pet Belgian wounded is making very little progress. His heart doesn't seem to be in it. I don't think that he means to get well. He is so sure that he will never see his wife and little children again. He won't be comforted. I wish I could understand all that he says, but he is a Walloon and hardly knows any French. October 15th. To-day we have moved his bed close to the window, and turned it so that he can watch the children when they come out of school. They scramble on the railings and peep in at him, and he smiles at them,oh! so pathetically : it nearly breaks my heart to see him. October 16111 I got on better with my poor wounded Walloon to-day. I know now that la mort ? A la Belgique fremissantc, a la Belgique ensanglante'c, a la Belgique mourante, mais qui ne mourra pas, trois fois, quatre fois, l'alternative fut présentee. his wife and five little children were at Liege, and why he is so sure that he Nulle soutlrance, si atroce fut-clle, douleur de femmes et d'enfants, de with utter hopelessness in his eyes, and makes with his limp, emaciated pauvres gens sans foyer, sans pain, sans autels, he put changer la determi- nation de la Belgique et de son Roi ; pour eux il n'y avait meme pas d'alter- women murdered native ; un devoir est un devoir et il faut lc remplir, c'est tout. Une fois de plus, et sous nos ycux, David s‘est dressé devant Goliath. lie jour viendra ou, avee le rcste du monde, l'ennemi meme s'inclinera dcvant tant dc vertu, cm'iera unc 51 pure gloirc, qui est celle du Roi comme will never see them again. When I try to comfort him, he just looks at me hands pathetic gestures indicative of the horrors which he has seen- children mutilated : " J'ai vu, madame ! " he says, J a1 Vu ! " ‘ October 17112. Great excitement at Ladrock to-day. 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I watched him as he gazed out in his usual pathetic, hopeless way,when suddenly a change came over his face. Before I could stop him he had half-raised himself out of bed and stretched out his arms ; then he fell back with a loud cry upon his pillow. The sister ran to my rescue and I left her to look after him for a moment, whilst I-moved by a strange intuition*leaned out of the window and looked out into the street. A melancholy little crowd of men, women, and children were wandering aimlessly along the pavement, turning wide, inquiring eyes On our quaint little provincial street, so typical of an English country town. 135 M051! ' |
