Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . ad been sent back with his faceblackened. The rancour flamed, with fewer and shorterintervals. My wife and I profited by one of these to jointravelling friends in an expedition to the Jordan and theDead Sea. Afterwards, even on rides of ten miles out ofJerusalem, we were subjected to temporary arrest, stoppage,and insult, so we had to discontinue all excursions. When xir PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD 329 the anxiety became acute, the British Consul told methat he was taking advantage of the return to Jaffa of aparty of English officers and sai
Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . ad been sent back with his faceblackened. The rancour flamed, with fewer and shorterintervals. My wife and I profited by one of these to jointravelling friends in an expedition to the Jordan and theDead Sea. Afterwards, even on rides of ten miles out ofJerusalem, we were subjected to temporary arrest, stoppage,and insult, so we had to discontinue all excursions. When xir PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD 329 the anxiety became acute, the British Consul told methat he was taking advantage of the return to Jaffa of aparty of English officers and sailors to send his wife tothe Greek convent there, and I gratefully sent my wife,with my son, my infant daughter, tutor and nurse,under the same escort to the seaport, where, as in aneagles eyrie of the rock-built convent, they found fanaticism never ceased, indeed it never died outuntil the massacre occurred two years later in Alexandriaand throughout Egypt, during the rebellion which brokeout under Arabi Pasha. Had not the bombardment of. FROM SKETCH-BOOK Alexandria occurred the murderous feeling towardsChristians would probably have been indulged all over theEast. In fact it was the provocation which necessitatedthe occupation of Egypt by the English. After thedeparture of my family I remained working with lessanxiety in the thought of their safety, for in case of anoutburst they could have escaped to a flagship that plied toand fro along the coast, and I knew that I could alwaysjoin my Christian neighbours in mutual defence. Themiseries caused by the conscription and the sending away ofthe fellahin, bound together by chains, and the consequentdestitution and starvation of their wives and children, itwould be out of place to attempt to describe here. I had now progressed so far with my picture, that I 330 PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE chap. developed the central group and painted the Virgin andChild. In the middle of the picture the surface of thecanvas proved to be so
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