Nigel Carrington
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Nigel Carrington’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Through the Looking Glass · Aleriel or A Voyage to Other Worlds - Wladislaw Lach-Szyrma · 7 Aug 2026
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Posilla assented.
And we walked down the hill.
In a quarter of an hour we were entering the town and passing down its silent streets, quite deserted, save by the Prussian sentries whose helmets glistened in the gaslight.
I now beheld them for the first time.
It was evident we were out of the lines of Paris.
We found the railway station lighted up and half full of people waiting for the early train.
A Prussian sentry was walking up and down, and a corporal's guard were lounging in the sal de tente.
At length the train came up.
And I can hardly describe my feelings when at last I was on my way to England.
My strange travelling companion was rather sad.
He spoke again and again of the miseries he had seen caused by this terrible war, of the folly of nations in not abolishing such a mode of settling disputes, of its waste and sinfulness.
I listened to him and accepted his arguments, which were eloquently put.
Then he changed the subject and asked me a host of questions, many of which I could not answer about England.
About its history, government, population, natural products, climate, etc.
As we talked he took out a notebook and seemed to be taking down what I said.
I was rude enough, I fear, once to look over his shoulder.
But though a fair proficient at shorthand and a student not only of the phonographic but other systems, he
I could not detect what it was he was writing.
At length we came to Dieppe.
which I found in possession of the Prussians.
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