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fell in the days of the great mutiny ! The inscription 

 on Lawrence's is : " Here lies Henry Lawrence, who 

 tried to do his duty." What could you add that would 

 not weaken that ? 



We talked, standing by Hodson's monument, of the 

 long struggle and the relief at Lucknow, and of what I 

 had written of it in my " Notes of a Trip round the 

 World." As it pleased the Charioteers, perhaps I may 

 be pardoned for quoting a part of it. 



" Our first vis't was to the ruins of the Residency, 

 where for six long months Sir Henry Lawrence and his 

 devoted band were shut up and surrounded by fifty 

 thousand armed rebels. The grounds, which I should 

 say are about thirty acres in extent, were fortunately 

 encompassed by an earthern rampart six feet in height. 

 You need not be told of the heroic resistance of the two 

 regiments of British soldiers and one of natives, nor of 

 the famous rescue. Hour after hour, day after day, 

 week after week, and month after month, the three 

 hundred women and children, shut in a cellar under 

 ground, watched and prayed for the sound of Have- 

 lock's bugles, but it came not. Hope, wearied out at 

 last, had almost given place to despair. Through the 

 day the attacks of the infuriated mob could be seen and 

 repelled, but who was to answer that as darkness fell the 

 wall was not to be pierced at some weak point of the 

 extended line ? One officer in command of a critical 

 point failing — not to do his duty, there was never a fear 



