sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote in [personal profile] skygiants 2021-05-30 06:48 pm (UTC)

"I hate Her Majesty's Government for their leaving the Sudan after having caused all its troubles; yet I believe our Lord rules heaven and earth, so I ought to hate Him, which I (sincerely) do not."

Clearly Gordon did not spend enough time talking to Florence Nightingale.

(I am familiar with him primarily as the inciting event of A. E. W. Mason's The Four Feathers (1902), which I have read, although I have many more feelings about the 1939 film.)

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