LONDON: HUTCHINSON & CO.
PATERNOSTER ROW ᛭ 1915
NURSE CAVELL’S
LAST MESSAGE TO THE WORLD.
“But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness to anyone.”
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| [The latest portrait of Nurse Cavell.] (From Photo Copyright Farringdon Photo Company) | ([see cover]) |
| [Nurse Cavell] (Photo by courtesy of Illustrated London News) | [Frontispiece] |
| [The Rev. Frederick Cavell, father of Nurse Cavell.] (Daily Mirror Photograph) | facing page [16] |
| [Mrs. Cavell, mother of Nurse Cavell.] (Daily Mirror Photograph) | ” [17] |
| [Nurse Cavell when a child, with her mother and elder sister.] (Photo Copyright Farringdon Photo Company) | ” [32] |
| [The Rectory, Swardeston, where Nurse Cavell was born.] (Daily Mirror Photograph) | ” [33] |
| [Nurse Cavell in her garden.] (Daily Mirror Photograph) | ” [48] |
| [Nurse Cavell, from a photograph taken in Brussels.] (Photo Copyright Farringdon Photo Company) | ” [49] |
CHAPTER I.
CHILDHOOD.
In the early seventies there were living at the country rectory of Swardeston, near Norwich, a clergyman and his wife and little family. There was a “New” and an “Old” Rectory. Both are still standing, much as they were then, except that the trees are older, and the “New” Rectory has long ago lost any signs of newness. It is one of the ways of Old England to call some of its most ancient things New, as if it could never learn to tolerate change kindly, even after centuries of wont.