Chapter 21

"Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,

And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him;

But nothing he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on,

In the grave where a Briton has laid him."

Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore," vi.

The reader must imagine the horror that daughters would experience, at unexpectedly beholding the shoc