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330 MILITARY LIFE. the mind too. Your image passed with outstretched arms, but the forefinger pointing to the enemy, your tearful eyes fastened on mine, and your lips contracted with sobs, but which said in a free and vibratory voice " : Do " your duty Oh, mother, how near you were to me at those moments ! ! . . . Do not believe it ; the dead do not produce that horrible impression which is supposed to be the case, at least as long as the danger lasts. My battalion was in a column and went forward ; the platoons stopped gradually on the edge of a ditch to look at the body of a soldier whose head had been destroyed by grape-shot. I had a tent stretched over it, and n
DEPARTURE AND RETURN. 331 bardian, and very handsome fellow, Edoardo B. He was in my company at college you have a photograph of us all taken together, hunt it up ; ; he is the first on the right, seated on the ground with a cigar in his mouth I remember it perfectly. See how he died his : regiment had stopped opposite the enemy's cannon he was seated on ; a drum, with lowered head, and poking the clod between his feet with the point of his sword. Suddenly he fell back with a cry ; a bit of grape-shot had wounded him in the chest and killed the horse of the adjutant who was behind him. He died after five hours of horrible suffering. Poor friend ! Who could have foretold this when we were studying for our last examinations at college, in the wretched little room on the fifth floor, by the light of a taper, with those copy-books and that can of water colored with smoke ; when you had so many bright hopes and were so happy ! . . . The answer to this letter is from the brother ; the mother had gone into her bed with a fever. " From time to time," the brother writes, " she becomes delirious and calls yon." The army falls back toward the Oglio. PIADENA, s/// July. . . . It is very sad and painful to be continually crossing villages and cities between two rows of immovable, mute, cold people, who gaze at us with staring eyes, as if we were an unknown army. Who has courage enough to raise his eyes to those people's faces ? I seem to read on every countenance " : Good " ! brave ! Was it worth while to make so much noise to cut such a figure afterward ? The regiments file silently by with lowered heads, like a procession of monks. It is a sight that hurts me ; my thoughts run back to you, mother ; I need you sorely. Pardon me ; I could at least have the consolation of returning home without one arm, I might say "I have won one arm less at least." But to return home unharmed, healthful, stout, and red enough to cause a pasha's envy, : seems really shameful and unbearable. How much bile is stirred up by if this little glass which, no matter how 'hard I work, will persist in showing one chin below the other ! I hate this insolent, new-born creature, which seems to laugh at the misfortunes of the country ! I am joking, but it is an indigestible joke. We are marching under the mid-day sun ; on the right and left of the road are gardens, flowery fields, and villas ; through the garden gates we see in the distance, at the end of the avenues, gentlemen in their shirtsleeves stretched out under the shade of the arbors, young ladies dressed in,
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AUTHOR'S PREFACE. SOME time ago, in
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THE CHOLERA OF 1867. 393 silent, an
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THE CHOLERA OF 1867. 403 though the
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age, boys ! " THE CHOLERA OF 1867.
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THE CHOLERA OF 1867. 417 thing," Th
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