Nigel Carrington

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3,086 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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

They would hold out to the last.

If so my prospects of getting away were bad indeed, and I was in danger of this wretched Franco Prussian war doing a permanent injury to my career.

I remember one evening walking along the Tuileries gardens, watching the flashes of the Prussian artillery and seeing the French troops marching up to the ramparts with their drums beating before them.

The cannon were roaring as a thunderstorm.

And yet the Parisian crowd was looking on calmly, as if merely witnessing a tragedy, instead of themselves being in a beleaguered city.

Suddenly I noticed doctor Prusilla passing close by me.

Where are you going?

I said.

To the ramparts.

I must do my best for the wounded.

Oh, it is a terrible war.

How can men ever carry on and systemize this horrid mode of settling national differences?

Hark, how the cannon are roaring.

Many a soul is being launched into eternity and

How terrible.

How unfit a son to go.

You take it more to heart than most around you, but you're in danger in the front.

Do not trouble yourself about me.

Think of yourself and of the poor soldiers.

I am in no danger.

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