Appeasing a tumult

p [347], line, Roberts, 53 x 114 mm

Signature, 'Roberts', at centre on right hand edge. Six beseeching figures on their knees around a standing figure.

p 600 [tr ed p 610] - 'The night, for hour after hour, was broken by these new-comers challenging round our bivouacs, crying their way to us like lost souls; and, peasant-fashion, slobbering over our hands with protestations that we were their highest lords and they our deepest servants. Perhaps the reception of them fell short of our usual standards; but, in revenge, they were applying the torture of keeping us awake, uneasily awake.'

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