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The caporale refused. "I can't do that, Eccellenza," he said; "but we will transport you or die with you!" Then again there was a gleam of victory. He thought the enemy were repulsed. A brother-officer saw him being carried along by two soldiers, and Emilio beckoned to him. "You must be my Confessor!" he said, smiling.
Then at last he was frightfully wounded, and perhaps you may have heard in the village' again the mother turned her face away that he said to a caporale beside him, who came from this district, whom he knew at home "Federigo, take your gun and finish it." He was afraid my beloved! of falling into the hands of the enemy. Already they had passed some wounded, horribly mutilated.
I first looked out at this last, and found that it commanded a view of the Palace of the Patriarch. Other prisons were near mine, in a narrow wing to the right, and in a projection of the building right opposite. Here were two prisons, one above the other. The lower had an enormous window, through which I could see a man, very richly drest, pacing to and fro. It was the Signor Caporale di Cesena.
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