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 TODLEBEN WOUNDED. 221 IT. C II A P. VIII. Ill-omened, however, this time, were the public thanksgivings ! On the very next day, General Todleben was wounded by a ball in the calf of Todiebcn . . . . wounded; his right leg ; and his surgeon, observing the symptoms, strongly pressed him to leave the town in all haste. This in absolute terms the general refused to do. The commander-in-chief of the garrison then came to the side of his couch ; but it was only after strong persuasion that he prevailed upon Todleben to retire to the and removed r A from Sebas- home of M. Sarandansky — a country-house on topoi. the Belbec* There — because inflammation set in — he long remained prostrate, and too often enduring great pain. Thus passed away from Sebastopol its mighty defender. It is true that the cares of war fol- The part he .. still took. lowed him, that reports which imparted more or less freshly, and more or less accurately the ever- varying phases of the siege and defence, were day by day brought him, and that from his bed of suffering too often indeed during moments when the pain he endured was severe., he showed those who came how to meet the then newly extant conditions, doing this, it is said, with all his old clearness, and with that strong, that sure grasp of mind for which he was famed amongst those who long had toiled under his orders.! t Ibid.
 * Ernshoff, Part VII. leaf 79 of the MS. translation I have.