The Sebastopol Sketches
The Sebastopol Sketches
“During this time thousands of individual personal vanities have been insulted, thousands have been gratified, and thousands have gone to rest in the arms of death. How many military decorations have been pinned on, how many stripped off, how many St Anne Ribbons and Orders of St Vladimir have been awarded, how many pink coffins and linen palls have gone to the grave! And still the same booming resounds from the bastions, still on clear evenings the French survey, with involuntary trepidation an...d superstitious dread, the yellowish, churned-up earth of the Sebastopol bastions and the outlines of the Russian sailors moving about on them, and still they count the embrasures from which the cast-iron cannon angrily bristle; still, as before, from the tower on Telegraph Hill a navigational NCO examines through a telescope the brightly coloured figures of the French forces, their batteries, their tents, their columns moving on the Green Hill,[22] and the puffs of smoke that leap up from their trenches; and still, inspired by the same zeal, oddly assorted companies of men with desires that are even more oddly assorted come flocking, struggling their way from different corners of the earth towards this fatal spot.MoreLess
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