There was no lack of national feeling in the Crimean War; but it was as nothing to that which has been excited by these massacres.

Had it been a simple mutiny among the troops we should all be well content to leave the matter in the hands of our soldiers; but it is a personal matter to everyone; rich and poor are alike moved by a burning desire to take part in the work of vengeance.

I should doubt if the country has ever been so stirred from its earliest history." "Yes, I fancy we are all envying you, Mallett," one of the other gentlemen said.

"Partridge shooting is tame work in comparison with that which is going on in India.

It was lucky for you that that first mutiny took place when it did, for had it been a week later you would probably have been gazetted out before the news came." "Yes, that was a piece of luck, certainly, Ashurst.