Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

Author:Mary Seacole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 1857-03-18T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XII

The British Hotel – Domestic Difficulties – Our Enemies –

The Russian Rats – Adventures in Search of a Cat –

Light-fingered Zouaves – Crimean Thieves –

Powdering a Horse

Summer was fairly advanced before the British Hotel was anything like finished; indeed, it never was completed, and when we left the Hill, a year later, it still wanted shutters. But long before that time Spring Hill had gained a great reputation. Of course, I have nothing to do with what occurred in the camp, although I could not help hearing a great deal about it. Mismanagement and privation there might have been, but my business was to make things right in my sphere, and whatever confusion and disorder existed elsewhere, comfort and order were always to be found at Spring Hill. When there was no sun elsewhere, some few gleams – so its grateful visitors said – always seemed to have stayed behind, to cheer the weary soldiers that gathered in the British Hotel. And, perhaps, as my kind friend Punch said,1 after all these things had become pleasant memories of the past.

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