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To that rock of sorrow, consecrated for ever by the sufferings of some of the purest of men, Silvio Pellico and Pietro Maroncelli, with nine or ten companions, condemned at the same time, were the first Italians to take the road. Here they remained for the eight years described by the author of Francesca da Rimini, in Le Mie Prigioni, a book that served the Italian cause throughout the world.
"Oh! ma mie, it seems to me that people are not more indulgent in Navarre than in France; you, yourself, were very severe about poor Fosseuse just now." "I severe?" "Yes; and yet we ought to be indulgent here, we lead such a happy life, you with your balls, and I with my chase." "Yes, yes, sire; you are right; let us be indulgent." "Oh! I was sure of your heart, ma mie." "You know me well, sire."
I have had a letter from Warner; he has seen the Baron, who was charged, I find, with a commission to you. . . . I shall write to you from Lyons; but when I shall hear from you the Lord knows, and I want to hear how the children do. Ma patience et ma perseverance sont inepuisables sur ce qui regarde Mie Mie. Je me croyois tranquillement etabli ici.
The Duke of Devonshire told him that twenty ladies had kept themselves disengaged in hopes of having him for a partner. Mie Mie goes to-night to the Theodores' benefit, with Lady Craufurd and Lady something Aston. I shall stay at home with George and get Fawkner to be her beau, if I can. I could not parry this off, but am in pain about it.
"Would I not wish to know who is your enemy, Paul the creature who was base and treacherous enough to attempt to deliver you into the hands of those merciless villains? What wrong had you done to anyone?" "Sh! Hush, Anne Mie! you are too excited," he said, smiling now, in spite of himself, at the young girl's vehemence over what he thought was but a trifle the discovery of his own enemy.
Anne Mie could only nod; she could not speak, for her tears were choking her. "But I'll atone with my life. Tell him," whispered Juliette. "Now then," shouted Merlin, "out of the way, hunchback, unless you want to come along too." "Forgive me," said Anne Mie through her tears. Then the men pushed her roughly aside.
Anne Mie was not clever; she was simple and childish, with no complexity of passions or devious ways of intellect. It was her elemental jealousy which suggested the cunning plan for the unmasking of Juliette. She would make the girl cringe and fear, threaten her with discovery, and through her very terror shame her before Paul Deroulede.
A look of appeal, touching in its trustfulness, went out to him, begging him to spare her further shame. Perhaps she felt that love, such as his, could not be killed in a flash. His entire nature was full of pity, and to that pity she made a final appeal, lest she should be humiliated before Madame Deroulede and Anne Mie.
Gioberti dedicated a book to him as "The first of Italian Patriots." He died at Turin on the 1st of February, 1854. Silvio Pellico's account of his imprisonment, Le Mie Prigioni, was first published in Paris in 1833. It has been translated into many languages, and is the work by which he will retain his place in European literature.
I am here with Mie Mie, and shall be so for ten or twelve days longer, and then the weather being cool and the days grown short, I shall find the evenings too tedious to myself and not very beneficial to her, which would undoubtedly be with me the first consideration.
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