Travels in Southeastern Europe

The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.

EASTWARD HO 1 ii3 their claim this hard-won outpost might be lost to them. And they buried Firmilian on Christmas Day in the morning. The hotel was filled to overflowing, but I found quarters with a friendly Austrian railway-man, and my kindly host and hostess were grieved for me alone in a strange land on Christmas Eve, and took me with them to a Christmas-tree party. It was a glorious tree, all glitter and twinkle, with a pink Christkind on the top. The children played at railway-trains on the floor, and their elders talked of the expected outbreak. They, as did my friends in the train, timed it for the end of March for certain. We thought neither of peace nor goodwill. A man who often drove the train to Mitrovitza vowed he would not do so much longer, and we drank to each other's long life in little glasses of cognac as if we really meant it. I had never been in a land in a state of war before, and felt as if I.were acting charades. No one as yet, here or elsewhere, reckoned Japan as an all-important influence in the affairs of the Near East. 'Things are quiet just now,' they said; 'you can take off your breeches when you go to bed. But some months ago, oh my God I we were ready to fly to the first consulate at a moment's notice. When the rising begins anywhere the Turks will massacre every Christian they find, and make sure they never rise again in this world. And they will begin here.' Thus the foreign Christians, and they foretold I should return home by sea.
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The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
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Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
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London :: Nelson,
[1905]
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Eastern question (Balkan)
Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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