“I hear the sound of that musketry; it is as…” Thomas Carlyle

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“I hear the sound of that musketry; it is as if the bullets were tearing my own brain”

Thomas Carlyle (spoken by John Sterling (letter to his brother Anthony))

The Life of John Sterling, Part I, Ch. XIII

Sterling's response, in St Vincent, to the news that Torrijos and his cousin Boyd had been shot at Malaga.

Citation: "I hear the sound of that musketry; it is as if the bullets were tearing my own brain" — Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part I, Ch. XIII. (id life-of-john-sterling-q6)

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Quotation from The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle