Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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Uccini. 12 June, 1891. will directed that he really saved the Island -- Away back in the star morning, with bombarded and loopholes made for us to enable them have defence he carried out to the last, an old white haired man, and some few looking women and handsome children were standing in the sheltered portico surrounded by girls dressed greenness, and listening with eyes a glow to the last report from the battery. And on a bright-eyed, dark-haired learner of the pieces of the fleet from the cannon printed by the young Englishwoman in the battery, her eye shone love for them and two big tears rolled down her pretty cheeks, and she looked proudly up into her friend full rich eye, and thanked God that her lover's cold bravery in anxious moments may prevent the hands to hand contest she so much dreaded. And yes, after at always the same moment, with the quiet heroism so often displayed by women, she turns to the old white haired man, and says, "Come, grandfather, let us see that all the work is prepared and that the furniture of the door below are tight for we may yet have to defend ourselves in the house! And as the whole scene varied and I sat down on the old cannon and pealed my pipe, and