Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

212 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. all the summer. If an outbreak took place my presence was the more necessary, as a martyr to the cause would be invaluable. ' You are afraid!' he cried-' you are afraid I' Up till now I had not entered into party politics with him, but had taken his advice whenever it did not entail active support of 'chetas.' Except for his habit of contradicting flatly, he had always been elaborately polite. Now the natural man burst through the ecclesiastical varnish. 'You are afraid!' he repeated; 'you are running away. You think we shall take you as we did Miss Stone. And it would be quite possible I' he added wrathfully. Now, the kidnapping of Miss Stone was one of the most mean and dirty political 'jobs' ever perpetrated. I wonder if the public has any idea how dirty. I had not credited the Bishop with a lofty moral standard, but this was lower than I expected. Also it was silly. I like travelling,' said I, 'and it would be cheap. You would never have a piastre for me.' His Grace and the Jackal were taken aback. 'Fourteen thousand pounds was paid for Miss Stone,' they said. 'Miss Stone was an American,' I answered. 'I am English. T can't afford to pay ransoms.' 'But the British Government would pay.' ' Oh no, it would not-not a piastre.' 'Miss Stone,' said the Bishop sententiously, 'might have been killed I'
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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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