t. Cereme

[Jubeh Tappan]

He little village of Landro (I feel a whimsical satisfaction in the
likeness of the name to mine), the innkeeper was the friend of this
truly great man--the greatest man that Europe has produced in our days,
excepting his true compeer, Kosciusko. Andreas Hofer gave him the chain
and crucifix he wore three days before his death. You may imagine this
man's enthusiasm, who, because I had said that Hofer was greater than
king or emperor, and had made him a present of small value, as the
companion and friend of that harmless and irreproachable hero, took this
precious relic from his neck and offered it to me. By the order of
Bonaparte, the companions of Hofer, eighty in number, were chained,
thumb-screwed, and taken out of prison in couples, to see him shot. He
had about him one thousand florins, in paper currency, which he
delivered to his confessor, requesting him to divide it impartially
among his unfortunate countrymen. The confessor, an Italian who spoke
German, kept it, and never gave relief from it to any of them, most of
whom were suffering, not only from privation of wholesome air, to which,
among other privations, they never had been accustomed, but also from
scantiness of nourishment and clothing. Even in Mantua, where, as in the
rest of Italy, sympathy is both weak and silent, the lowest of the
people were indignant at the sight of so brave a defender of his country
led into the public square to expiate a crime unheard of for many
centuries in their nation. When they saw him walk forth, with unaltered
countenance and firm step before them; when, stopping on the ground
which was about to receive his blood, they heard him with unfaltering
voice commend his soul and his country to the Creator; and, as if still
under his own roof (a custom with him after the evening prayer), implore
a blessing for his boys and his little daughter, and for the mother who
had reared them up carefully and tenderly thus far through the perils


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