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to the earth by the deadly spear , to fling himself down by his skte i fcrtd to appeal to the old noble who fidcra up at the moment . * , I . t ^ n&y brother , noble Stephen , a boy , a mere child!—the bestthe mildest ! see how his blood dabbles the grass : back , back—your horse ' s hoofs are in the stream ! Justice , my tord , justice;—you are a great mun . ' " * Who slew him ? anOrsini , doubtless ; you shall have justice . ' " But it is found that Gianni Colonna was the murderer . c < ' You slew him ! ' cried Rienzi , in a voice of thunder , starting
from the ground . c Justice then , 1 x 13 ' Lord Stephen , justice ; you promised me justice and I will have it !" "' My poor youth , ' said the old man compassionated , ' you should have had justice against the Orsini , but see you not this has been an error ? L do not wonder you are too grieved to listen to reason now . We must make this up to you . ' * ' ' And let this pay for masses for the boy ' s soul ; I grieve me much for ' the accident , said the younger Colonna , flinging down a purse of gold . * Ay , see us at the palace next week young Cola—next week /
* * * Rienzi made no reply , he did not heed or hear him—dark and stern thoughts , thoughts in which were the germ of a mighty revolution , were at his heart . He woke from them with a aitaft , as the soldiers were now arranging their bucklers so as to make a kind of bier for the corpse , and then burst into tears as he fiercely motioned them away , and clasped the clay to his breast till he was literally soaked with the oozing ; blood .
wt i . J ° The poor child ' s garland had not dropped from his arm even when he fell , and , entangled by his dress , it still clung around him / It was a sight that recalled to Coin all the gentleness , the kind heart , and winning graces of his only brother—his only friend ! It was a sight that seemed to make yet more inhuman the untimely and unmerited fate of that innocent boy . * My brother ! my brother !' groaned the survivor ; « how shall I meet our mother ?—how shall I meet even night and solitude again ?—so young , so harmless ! See
ye , sirs , he was but too gentle . And they will not give us justice , because his murderer was a noble and a Colonna . And this gold , too—gold for a brother ' s blood ! W ill they not '—and the young man ' s eyes glared like fire—* will they not give us justice ? Time shall show ! ' So saying he bent his head over the corpse ; his lips muttered , as with some prayer or invocation , and then rising , his face was as pale ns the dead beside him , but it was no longer pale with grief . "
Our next extract shall be of the time when the seed , thus sown , had sprung up and home fruit . ' * It wti » the morning of the 10 th of May , the air was brisk and clear , and the fiiin , which had just risen , shone cheerily upon the glittering casques and spears of u gallant procession of armed horsemen , sweeping through the long and principal street of Rome . The
ne ' ^ hinjr of tit * - hordes , the ringing of the hoofs , the ihtzzle of the arfhbnr , and 'the tossing to i \ m [ fro of the stanriurclR , ndonie < l with the proud insignia , of the Colonna , presented one of" tht ? gwy and biilliuut spectacles peculiar to the middle ages .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/50/
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