This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... formed part of the works of defense raised by General Wheeler. After Colonel Munro had long gazed motionless and in silence upon the ruins of the barracks, he turned to go toward Bibi-Ghar, but Banks, unable to restrain himself, seized his arm, as though to arrest his steps. Sir Edward looked ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... formed part of the works of defense raised by General Wheeler. After Colonel Munro had long gazed motionless and in silence upon the ruins of the barracks, he turned to go toward Bibi-Ghar, but Banks, unable to restrain himself, seized his arm, as though to arrest his steps. Sir Edward looked steadfastly in his face, and said in a terribly calm voice, " Let us proceed." " Munro! I beseech of you!" " Then I will go alone." There was no resisting him. We went toward Bibi-Ghar, which is approached through gardens very well laid out, and planted with fine trees. The building is of octagonal form, and has a colonnade in Gothic style, which surrounds the place where was the well, now filled up and closed in by a casing of stone. This forms a kind of pedestal on which stands a white marble statue representing the Angel of Pity, one of the last works due to the chisel of the sculptor Marochetti. ' It was Lord Canning, Governor-General of India during the fearful insurrection of 1857, who caused this monument to be erected. It was constructed from the design of Colonel Yule, of the engineers, who himself wished to have defrayed all the expenses. Here Sir Edward Munro could no longer restrain his tears. He fell on his knees beside the statue; while Sergeant McNeil, who was close beside him, wept in silence; and we, in the deepest pain, stood looking on, powerless to console this unfathomable grief. At length Banks, aided by McNeil, succeeded in drawing our friend away from the spot, and I thought of the words traced with his bayonet by one of Havelock's soldiers on the stone brink of the well: " Remember Cawnpore! " CHAPTER XI THE MONSOON AT eleven o'clock we returned to the encampment, ...
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