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LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI. 87
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I1st Europe. We Passed Over In Rapid Rev...
Of the Italian struggle , of tlie landing * of the French forces at Civita Vecahia , of the escape of the Popewe need not now speak ;
, _enough for us that Ossoli took station with his men on the walls of the Vatican gardens , where he remained faithful unto the end , and
that Marg * aret had at the same time charge of one of the hospitals , and was the assistant of the Princess Belgioso at dei _Pellegi-ini
_, where during the first day they received seventy wounded men , French and Romans , and spent daily within those miserable walls
some seven or eight hours , and often the entire night . Separated as she was from her husband , with whom she could hold no
communication , parted from her child , as all links between Rieti and Rome had long been broken , and pressed with the responsibility of her
secret marriage , Margaret might well be exhausted and weary , and return from her day ' s or night ' s watching pale and agitated .
No argument of hers could persuade Ossoli to leave his post to take either food or rest , but at length , after the _sieg-e , Margaret left
Rome for Rieti , where she remained a few weeks nursing her poor feeble little boy , who had been neglected by his cruel nurse , and
brought to the brink of the grave . Father and mother watched him day and night for four weeks , and when they had brought him
round , journeyed by way of Perugia to Florence , where they all resist three g passed iving our their readers last an winter extract on from earth the . letter And here written we by cannot
Margaret to her mother , to prepare her for the son and grandchild whom she hoped soon to present to her beloved parent . Margaret ' s
affection for her mother seems to have been at all times strong and beautiful , and a point of unfailing rest in her somewhat troubled
existence . telli " gence This brings about myself me to the , which main I object had hoped of my I present might be letter able , — to af a commun ter piece of ica in te
much in such in a silence way as with to that give hope yon , — pleasure is like . the That rest of I cannot my earthl , — y desti suffering ny . child " The might first long moment ago have , it may been addressed cause yon by a another pang to name know than that yonr yours eldest , and
has a little son a year old . onl '' y But great , belove love d for mother you that , do kept not feel me this silent long . . I have I do assure abstained you , that a hundred it was uld have been most
from times a , when wish not your to symp harass athy you , your with coun anxiety sel , wo . Even now I would precious abstain , , and but permanentl it has become together necessary and , on we account have no of hop the e child in the , present for us to state live of publicl Italian y
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to " find He with is not me in . any He respect had no such instructor a person except as peop an le old in general priest , would who entirel expect y
has i neg gnorant lected excellent , his and practical education he has no ; and enthusiasm of has all been that of a is judicious character contained . observer in On books the of he other all is that absolutel hand passed , he y
b activity efore his , may eyes put ; has most a sense nice enthusiasts ; sense of to s duty ham , e \ which a very , in sweet its unfailing temper , and , minute great for has boon and most tender
native refinement . His love me unswerving '
Life Of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 87
LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI . 87
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/15/
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