Nigel Carrington

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Through the Looking Glass · Aleriel or A Voyage to Other Worlds - Wladislaw Lach-Szyrma · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

How few in those two millions dreamt of the catastrophe hanging over them?

An unseen Damocles sword suspended by a hair in the midst of all that gaiety and splendour.

I am sure I as little foresaw the peril to Paris as any one, nor still worse, the catastrophe hanging over myself.

One morning just as the papers were getting excited about the Spanish succession question, the

I thought it would be a pleasant change to have a trip to Versailles.

Galton had gone off to Brussels that morning, so I was left alone.

I little dreamt of what that little trip would cost me.

We'd just got to near Sevre station, when in a moment I heard a tremendous crash.

The panels and roof of my carriage fell in masses about me, and amidst the screams of the passengers, the wounded and the frightened, I felt a sudden blow, and then an intense agony in my leg.

And then

I will not dwell on that painful time at the Hopital de Saint Clotilde

I was put in the accident ward, and must say that I shall ever feel grateful to the careful and kind nurses and doctors who attended me.

My injuries were tedious and painful rather than dangerous.

My leg was fractured.

And the shock of the accident had shaken my nervous system.

While in the hospital I heard the patients one day talking of a remarkably able young doctor whose wonderful cures were attracting great attention in medical circles.

I listened with avidity to these stories, and resolved directly I was able, to consult him.

In a few days I was well enough to be removed to my hotel in the Rue Pelletier.

Here directly I was ensconced in my own chamber with

I wrote a note to doctor Priscilla.

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