They were so grateful." "Ah, yes," murmured the old man.

"Florence Nightingale will live long in song and story.

An angel of mercy she was, through all the horrors of the Crimean War; but she was an English woman, my dear.

The one I mean is an American, and her name ought to go down in history with the bravest of its patriots and the most honoured of its benefactors.

I learned to know her first in that long siege at Strasburg.