Category: Biographies
TO C. H. M. THE “COMPANION” WHOSE CARE AND SYMPATHY GREATLY LIGHTENED THE DARK YEARS FOR ME, AND COMFORTED THE LIVES OF SO MANY SUFFERERS, THIS VOLUME IS, WITH DEVOTED AFFECTION, GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
As neutrals, we were not personally troubled in this respect; but several of our friends were inexplicably arrested and sent to confinement either in Germany or Belgium. The cau...
8. Part 8The occupying powers seized everything they wanted. The entire contents of dry-goods and other ware-shops were requisitioned; food-stores, when not deliberately stolen, were bou...
5. Part 5The soldiers were then bidden to enter, and the search began. Not only was her desk examined and every letter in it opened, but each volume in the book-cases was taken out and l...
2. Part 2As this severe drainage threatened to reduce to famine the 800,000 inhabitants of Brussels, Monsieur Max informed the German authorities he could not vouch for the people’s subm...
1. Part 1TO C. H. M. THE “COMPANION” WHOSE CARE AND SYMPATHY GREATLY LIGHTENED THE DARK YEARS FOR ME, AND COMFORTED THE LIVES OF SO MANY SUFFERERS, THIS VOLUME IS, WITH DEVOTED AFFECTION...
12. Part 12However, there were also dark, familiar stains to mar this dawning of a new Germany whose sun, by a strange irony of Fate, arose in Belgium! The yesterday of trickery and terror...
7. Part 7This meant, for Belgians, not only the deprivation of kitchen utensils and other things necessary to a household, but, even more bitter, it meant providing the enemy with materi...
9. Part 9But, without a word of encouragement, the noble girl related her story in a brave but unsteady voice, broken, toward the end, by tears that did much to soften his bitter feeling...
3. Part 3As the German military element was increasing daily at the hotel, all persons of other nationalities departed, save those obliged to remain. We, the British nurses, and some few...
6. Part 6Some faces seen in those sad gatherings I shall never forget; faces of haggard, hopeless men, whose brave efforts to live honestly had been frustrated when success was almost at...
11. Part 11Despised as the German race was, and probably will be for many generations to come, nevertheless their long-suffering victims were large-spirited enough to recognize the worthin...
10. Part 10Even in days that were so much brighter for outsiders, in August and September, we were denied the satisfaction of knowing that our cause was progressing. The information allowe...
13. Part 13┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Transcriber's note: │ │ │ │ The original spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been │ │ retained, w...