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    happens ? Wounds , wounds , at the least . Hospitals are very expensive : one would

    not run the risque of putting a man in , who could be kept out . Beside , the judges do not like to have anything to do with such bad people ; for , if they inflict punishment , some relative or other of the sufferer cuts the root of a vine for him , and it costs as much wine as a whole crown would purchase to make them

    reconciled to the sentence . The judges are not afraid of illtreating a worthy man , because a worthy man is never vindictive ; and the harm on the whole is not very great , because it enables him to

    exercise the virtue of forgiveness . But indeed , my dear friend , we think in Tuscany that it is better to leaye the rogues alone , for they have no respect even for the magistrates when their blood is heated .

    I believe we have a peculiar breed of them ; I never heard of the like elsewhere . In the present instance , as the murdered man is with God . and

    the murderer has made ( let us hope ) his peace with the church , both charity' and prudence would draw a veil over so untowardf an event .

    Should it appear to the wisdom of his Eminence the Legate that an example is necessary , in order to frighten the smugglers of snuff and segfars , he perhaps will make one , the motive beingj urgent ; butlei us hope if this unfor-

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    tunate man is penitent , his Eminence will wait for one who is not , and exercise his discretion upon him who

    habitually has disregarded the edicts , and defrauded the fisc of the Sovereign , rather than upon him whose offence arose from sudden irritation , and

    whose words immediately preceding it appealed to the love of God and holy Mary . Our mild and most provident government acts admirably upon such occasions . When the most illustrious

    Signor , the Signor Pitti Tovaglia , the other day , had the misfortune to steal by midnight out of his bed , and to murder the unfortunate Signora the Padrona , in whose

    hospitable house he was gratuitously lodged at Pisa , where he was receiving his education , he was not condemned to death , or other corporal and infamous punishment , being ; born noble , but

    has been permitted to lead an easylifeintheisleofEiba , where he may live a great number of years for edification and example , if they continue to take proper care in feeding him handsomely , and admit his companions to come about

    him . However your story is really a shocking one , and I was terrified and grieved tQ death at it , as well as I caii remember . A knife of seven or eight inches in blade ! J * er Bacco ! mi canzona ! It uaa ^ es * me shudder to the marrow * t would hot see it for agoodquat * trinello , unless I had the arm of

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    High and Low Life in Italy . 259

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/34/