A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands / gathered and narrated by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" ; illustrated by L. Frölich.

  • Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901.
Date:
1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands / gathered and narrated by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" ; illustrated by L. Frölich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD OF THE FAR SOUTH. 1864. Our roll of Golden Deeds is nearly at an end, not indeed that acts of self-devotion are exhaused, but that full and authentic particulars have not reached us of more than we have related. We have not ventured to tell the stories of the gentlemen who, in the Indian mutiny, rode for miles through an enemy’s country, under a burning sun, with the young child of a friend in their arms. One of these little creatures, still under three years old, whose protector had had to fight his way through the natives with her on his horse’s neck, was too young to know what she owed to him, and only remembered the horrors of her ride, so that when he was at length able to restore her to her mother, she shrank from him, and would not even look at him. The other little girl, a little Miss Christian, not four years old, was only rescued for the time to fall with her protector into the possession of a native prince, who retained them in his power while besieging Lucknow. The child pined and died before the time of release came, but her illness was the occasion of an unlooked-for com- fort to her companions in captivity. A native doctor, who was allowed to prescribe for her, sent some powders for her wrapped in a chance bit of printed paper. It proved to be the leaf of a torn Bible, and these were the words that it bore: “ I, even I. am He that comforteth