ABSTRACT
My brother devoted himself at once to the women, and begged me to supply his place with the troop. It is difficult to conceive a case more distressing, than that of this mother and daughter. They had had in Colocotroni a protector, in whom they confided for every thing. But a few days before that in which we found them thus desolate, they had had a convenient abode; they had had servants. All was now gone. Their dwelling was burned to the ground; / their property consumed; their servants dispersed no one knew whither. They were alone, surrounded with military bands, not a face among them that they had ever seen before. Arthur supplied every thing to them. He led them to a neighbouring village, and provided them with a decent apartment. No enemy was now to be found in the Austrian province. By dint of enquiry my brother traced two of their servants, a male and a female, and thus gave them attendants to whose assistance they were accustomed. Their means were irretrievably dissipated; but Arthur took care that they should feel no want.
