"
{16} Greville, vii. 223, quotes from a letter written after
Inkerman to the Prince Consort by Colonel Steele, saying "that he
had no idea how great a mind Raglan really had, but that he now saw
it, for in the midst of distresses and difficulties of every kind
in which the army was involved, he was perfectly serene and
undisturbed."
{17} "Go quietly" might have been his motto: even on horseback he
seemed never to be in a hurry. Airey used to come in from their
rides round the outposts shuddering with cold, and complaining that
the Chief would never move his horse out of a walk. "I daresay,"
said Carlyle, "Lord Raglan will rise quite quietly at the last
trump, and remain entirely composed during the whole day, and show
the most perfect civility to both parties."
{18} The first death! out of how many he nowhere reckons: he
shrinks from estimates of carnage, and we thank him for it. But an
accomplished naturalist tells me that the vulture, a bird unknown
in the Crimea before hostilities began, swarmed there after the
Alma fight, and remained till the war was over, disappearing
meanwhile from the whole North African littoral.
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