Read CHAPTER XV of A Woman's Part in a Revolution, free online book, by Natalie Harris Hammond, on ReadCentral.com.

Those good people who have followed me thus far will see that a woman’s part in a revolution is a very poor part to play. There is little hazard and no glory in it.

The day we made Southampton, as we stood, a number of Reformers and Reformers’ wives, on the ‘Norham’s’ deck, one of the gentlemen who had come to welcome us asked:

‘Mrs. Hammond, what did you do in the revolution?’

‘She helped us bear our trouble,’ said Lionel Phillips, and his words were sweet praise to my ears.

A few weeks later, in my lovely English home, a third son was born to us. There was something very appropriate in this child of war-times being first consigned to the professional arms of a Miss Gunn.

‘He is perfect,’ were his father’s first words to me as he leaned over the new-born infant, and every mother will know all that meant to me.

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