Thursday, August 14, 2014

Daily Dose

From Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey

GENERAL GORDON'S PASSION

"There were moments when his passion became utterly ungovernable;and the gentle soldier of God, who had spent the day in quoting texts for the edification of his sister, would slap the face of his Arab aide-de-camp in a sudden access of fury or set upon his Alsatian servant and kick him till he screamed."

From The End of General Gordon

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