'Oh, general, it's you, is it, I brought in?
I'm so glad; I didn't know your honour.

But, -- --, if I'd known it was you, I'd have saved you all the same.' This is the true soldier's spirit." In the same letter, Miss Nightingale says: "England, from her grand mercantile and commercial successes, has been called sordid; God knows she is not.

The simple courage, the enduring patience, the good sense, the strength to suffer in silence--what nation shows more of this in war than is shown by her commonest soldier?
I have seen men dying of dysentery, but scorning to report themselves sick lest they should thereby throw more labour on their comrades, go down to the trenches and make the trenches their deathbed.

There is nothing in history to compare with it...."] "Say what men will, there is something more truly Christian in the man who gives his time, his strength, his life, if need be, for something not himself--whether he call it his Queen, his country, or his colours--than in all the asceticism, the fasts, the humiliations, and confessions which have ever been made: and this spirit of giving one's life, without calling it a sacrifice, is found nowhere so truly as in England."] [Footnote 1412: Mrs.Grote's 'Life of Ary Scheffer,' pp.

154-5.] [Footnote 1413: The sufferings of this noble woman, together with those of her unfortunate husband, were touchingly described in a letter afterwards addressed by her to a female friend, which was published some years ago at Haarlem, entitled, 'Gertrude von der Wart; or, Fidelity unto Death.' Mrs.Hemans wrote a poem of great pathos and beauty, commemorating the sad story in her 'Records of Woman.'] [Footnote 151: 'Social Statics,' p.