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length they tnet again , and their conversation turned more than ever on the eternal future . * If by any unhoped for occurrence , said Oroboni , We should Return into society , shall We be cowardly enough to be ashamed of the gospel ? To admit the suggestion , should any of our friends fancy that confinement has enfeebled our minds , and that through this weakness our faith increased .
• Oroboni , ! replied , the question suggests to me what frould be your answer , and that is also mine . There can be no viler thing than to be the slave of others' judgments , when one believes them to be false , and I will not believe such vileness will ever be yours or mine / They on one occasion , and only on one , saw each other . It was permitted to each of the prisoners ,, in tvirn , to walk for an hour > twice a week , and on one of these walks , Pellico passed the door of his fellow-prisoner , at the moment when it was opened to
admit the jailer . The temptation was irresistible , and he rushed into the room ; the jailer threatened ^ and endeavoured to separate them ; his assistants came , but the sight of their mutual delight and emotion drew tears from every one of them ; for a few moments they were permitted to see one another , face to face : then they were parted , Oroboni saying , * We shall never behold one another again on earth ; ' and they never did . A few months afterwards , his chamber was empty , and this fine young man was interred in the cemetery opposite Pellico ' s window .
• Foot Oroboni ! what , a chill ran through my veins , when I heard he was no more ! And we heard the voices and the steps of those who bfime to carry away the corpse ! and we saw from the window the car in which he was carried to the cemetery . Two of the common convicts drew it , four guards followed . We accompanied the sad procession with our eyes to the cemetery . It entered the enclosure , stopped in one corner ; there was the grave . A little while after , the car , the convicts ,
and guards returned , one of the last was Kubitzky ; he said to me , ( it "was a kind thought , surprising from a rough man , ) " I marked distinctly the spot of interment , in order that if any of his relations or friends should one day obtain leave to carry his remains into his own land , we may know where they lie . " Sometimes Oroboni had said to me , looking out from his window on the cemetery , " I must accustom myself to the thought of lying there : yet I must own that the idea is
Tory revolting to me : it seems to me that we cannot lie bo quietly in our graves in this land , as in our ovrn dear peninsula . " Afterwards , he laughed and exclaimed , " Childishness ! when a vestment is worn out , and one must change it , what signifies where it is thrown ! " At another time , he paid , " I do prepare for death , but I should be more easily resigned to my condition , could I once more enter the paternal
roof , clasp my father ' s knees , hear one word of blessing , and then die !** He sighed , and added , " If this cup may not pass away , Omy God f thy will be done ! " And the last morning of his life , he still repeated , kissing a crucifix , which Krai had brought him , " Thou that wast Divine , hadst yet some dread of death , and didst say , ' If It be possible , let this cup pass from me . Forgive me , if I too say it . But I also
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410 Silvio Peltico .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/50/
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