lOG IlKROIC RESISTANCE Ol- SEBASTOPOL CHAl'. liis people ill heart that not only the depression . created by defeat, but the sense of being abandoned and left for sacrifice by the evading army, was succeeded by a quick growth of warlike pride, by a wholesome ardour for the fight, V)y an orderly, joyful activity. And, even when he was dead, there continued to be still growing proofs of the power he had had over the minds and affections of those around him ; for men whose pride it was that they had served under his immediate orders in the last — in the glorious — month of his life, were content to engage iu great toil for the sake of making known to their country the worth of the chief they had lost.* If this were all, it might be said that Korniloffs nature was of the kind which people call ' enthusi- ' astic,' that the effects he wrought upon other men's minds were exactly those which 'en- ' thusiasm ' is used to produce, and that, there- fore, that single word would sudice to disclose what is meant. Yet this would be hardly strict truth, and at all events might mislead. The ' enthusiast,' in general, is a man very prone to hopefulness, and the flame he is able to impart to others is that which burns in his own bosom. With Korniloif it was not thus. The hope, the assurance of victory, with which he could in-
- This is an allusion to the fjreat (Russian) work of Captain
Gendre, one of the most attachtul and most valued of Korni- loff's Staff. I may here express my lively sense of the service which lias been rendered me hy Admiral Likhatchelf, who most kindly translated for my use the portions of the work which relate to the earlier period of the siege.
