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bereavement , the dveadftil * $ etails of their sti fferiogs . H ' he © rplmn Aildrten mingled their tears with those of their widowed mother . On one occasion the whoie Were collected round me ; and never shall I forget wfaat I endured on thus fin-ding myself m the centre of ^ t large groupe of
uuhappy beings , who had been actors und * sufferers in the most tragic scenes . Clandine , the wife ' of Andre Ohivas , witnessed the murder of Jier husband and of her brother-in-law - At five o'clock in the morning , Andr £ went to his work , and ,
alarmed at the dreadful confusion which pervaded the towa , and by 'the threats he had received , he told his wife that it would depend < m her reports , during the day , whether he should return home to sleep . As Clau&ine went into the iielda where her husband worked , to take him
some soup , she saw a party of armed men at a distance , conducting towards Nismes , a raati dressed in blue . They stopped several fugitives who were quitting the city , and with difficulty suffered them to pass , ' Save you ! ' cried one of the men to their prisoner , whom Clauxline did not yet recognize , * as for you , you shall be a pillar here , as well as of
the temple ;* and , advancing a fe \ v steps , they fired . The shots entered the throat of their victim ; he fell , and expired . Shocked at this deliberate murder , the poor woman shrieked , and reproached the perpetrators with their wickedness and inhumanity * They answered , her with the coldest contempt and the most barbarous irony . She sprang forward ; —and who can conceive her horror when
she beheld at her feet the corpse of her husband ! Recovering from her consternation , she entreated the assistance of some persons who passed , to remove the bleeding body ; but , stupined by terror , they refused to render her this sad Service , and the unhappy wife was
obliged to drag along , in her own arms , the corpse of Chivas . Alone * and covered with blood , she made the most distressing efforts ;—they soon exhausted all her strength , and , sinking with fatigue , she resolved to abandon , for a short time , her precious load . The fermier of a
neighbourin g farm , touched with her fortorn situation , promised , when \\\ & master jauae , to cover the body with earth . \ N ° / exclaimed the weeping widow , let me at least have the consolation of Pacing it in a coflin ; and immediately she set out on purpose to procure , one in
• He f * ltv A 1 « fc ' o f 4 xHwv , uitMl ^ ACs t- ^ KattJl 4 t *> *? e city . Alas ! she was destined , on this terrible dery , to suffer successive * The ^ vrordd in ifaUcs should be «** od . Brv ,
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Uials . On entering the city she had > the misefcy © f &eing present " at the nwirder \© f her bi' © the ^ m -taw , Ant dine Glot , and was arrested in iher course b y ; the spreading- calamities of her unhappy dually . The wretched Claudine at length left tier
companions in misfortune , and found courage to pursue her route . The coffin was bought , and , after some difficulty , she procured a laissez passer , to seek and inter the corpse of her husband ; but , whem she reached the barrier , the wretches who formed the corps-du-garde demanded
500 francs f < o ? permission to carry but the coffin ; and , after much contention , they obliged the poor woman m pay them twenty . But her cup of affliction was » ot yet full : scarcely had sfee interred Andre in a field , when the barbarisms
dug up his tody , and stnpt it of the two cloths in which it was enveloped ; nor was it till after some days that the widow succeeded , in the midst of threats and danger , to re-cover with earth bis dishonoured remains . The principal agents in this assassination were Saure dit
Galine and Sauve , junior . They surpiised and seized Chivas while working in the vineyard . Antoine Clot had married ; a Chivas . About seven in the morning , Trestaillon , the chief of these parties , met Clot as he was returning from the threshing-floor * and immediately seized him . In raic xlid one of the friends of the assassins
entreat them not to kill him . * Away with him ; one brigand the less , * was their reply . Clot threw himself at the feet of the monsters . * In the same of my three children , ' said he , * spare me ;
I have never injured you . *— Say youtprayers , ' exclaimed the chief , and levelling his carbine over the shoulder erf Parrain , a silk-weaver and a Catholic , who had thrown himself before Clot as an
intercessor , he fired , and his victim fell Looking at his murderer , he said , ' God forgive you , as I hope he will me ; you have killed the father of a family ; 1 shall often appear before you , *—* There is -one , ' interrupted the fiend , * and now let ¦ us load for another . ' He reloaded his
piece and walked on . Clot still breathed * * —his distracted daughter , thirteen years of age , almost choked by sobs , offered him a little brandy . * Ma m %€ j said her father to her—and he was no more . At this moment the wile reached her base
band , and the son knelt beside his dea& parent . Miserable family ! The -aofo took the body in his arms and carried it to their now dreary home . In the * njidst of groans and tears , these three distressed mourners dug a grave and cotttmittea ^ t to the earth . But every feeling and all decency must be outraged : at the ttoo *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1821, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2506/page/41/
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