Nigel Carrington

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

Day by day news became more anxious in the political world.

The war had broken out, the march at Berlin had commenced, and the shouting had even reached us when I was in the hospital.

Now the papers formed an occupation for my thoughts even in my sick bed.

Priscilla's treatment gave me wonderful relief.

But the broken bone needed rest for cure.

And I had to stay in my room a prisoner, while the busy and memorable scenes of the war, Gravellot, Mizier, Sidan, were exciting the minds of everyone around me.

I saw nothing of Priscilla after that visit, but

I learnt that next day he had started with an ambulance in connection with the army of Marshal MacMond.

I was really beginning to get very anxious and

I at length quite recovered from my illness and was able to get about.

But the line of blood and iron bound me like everyone else within the besieged city.

There was no lack of excitement indeed.

The news of every day was thrilling them.

and one often saw terrible scenes of war.

It was like being a spectator of a vast tragedy, and the Parisians viewed it as such as

Their strong dramatic sentiment was excited and almost amused at first by the spectacle of war at their very gates.

I could not resist the contagion.

But still I had a good deal to be anxious about as they had.

My autumn term was hopelessly lost at Oxford, of course, and possibly my lent term would be also, for it looked as if this siege would go on for a long time.

Indeed, the Parisians declared

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