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1913] IN THE MILITARY HOSPITAL 16;
home and foreign policy for more than thirty-five years.
But that is impossible! Do you hear me, impossible!
Children, children," she called in Bulgarian to the
wounded who were lying in the ward, "listen to what
they say in Russia: that we ought to give up Macedonia
to the Serbians ! Do you consent ? " " No, no," about
ten voices answered in chorus; the cripples hobbled
towards us ; the men in the invalid chairs crawled along,
all calling out: " No, never! It is not for that we shed
our blood 1" Faces began to display emotion, eyes to
flash. . . . Seeing that the tumult was likely to increase,
I led the two ladies into the next room—which happened
to be the dispensary—and there I thought it my duty to
explain in a few words to Madame Karavelov the true
state of affairs. She calmed down a little, and appeared
to understand up to a point that our advice was
well-founded and not directed against the real interests of
Bulgaria.
" Now you can see whether it is easy to convince
Bulgarians ? " I said to Mademoiselle Milutin when we
were walking from the hospital to the Legation.
"Yes," she replied, "it is not easy! But how
interesting all this is; I shall certainly tell Sazonoff all
I have seen and heard when I return to St. Petersburg."
(Mademoiselle Milutin had become very intimate with
M. Sazonoff during the years when they were both in
Rome.)
"Oh yes! tell him, do tell him, that always does
good!" I replied; "but do not be too much impressed
by the scene you have just witnessed. Arnica
Karavelov, sed magis arnica Veritas. Besides, if justice is not
entirely on the side of the Serbians, it is yet imperative
in the interests of truth that we should recognise and
reward in some way their perfectly correct attitude
to us. My sole fear is that they will do themselves
immense harm some day by setting the Bulgarians
literally against them."
Towards the middle of May, as every one had been
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