Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

220 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. or my soul; I had come to learn as much as I could of the truth about recent events, and see what could be done. The Bishop was nonplussed. I do not fancy truth was an article he greatly valued, and he certainly was not afflicted with a thirst for knowledge. He had not even learnt to speak Turkish. '" Knowest thou aught a Corsaint that men call Truth? Couldst thou aught wissen us the way, where that wight dwelleth? " " Nay, so God help me," said the gome then. "I saw never palmer, with pike nor with scrip Axen after him ere, till now in this place I " ' The lines, vaguely remembered, sketched the situation. fairly. 'What have you learned?' said the Bishop eagerly. I hesitated. The Bishop was persistent; so was his secretary. They questioned and requestioned. I looked at the Bishop, young, smug, unctuous-the man who had faced no bullets, visited no sick-beds, comforted no dying; who had fared softly in his palace while his flock rotted and starved. I thought of his cowardly dread of infection, the priestless burial of the little boy; I heard again the words, 'Not a quarter of the population are dead,' etc.; I saw the helpless mass of wretched humanity with whose blood this man and his friends meant to paint red the frontiers of Big Bulgaria. Then I told quite frankly what I had seen of the game. Their interruptions only showed it more clearly, and I tried by
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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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