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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