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to them more than his force that they fled bf'fore. Wewere informed that
· the Volunteers had sixty-six killed, with a very small proportion of
wounded. Two Austrian officers were killed in the church, besides others
Jrilled, wounde1l, and prisoners. .As so much had been said of the bri
gandage and ruffianism of Garibaldi's men, I examined them carefully.
I have had considerable practioe in the discrimination of bad faces, and
have occaaioruilly surprised a gaol chaplain by picking out the habitual
from the caawiJ.·criminals, but among the hundreds I saw I did not find
one; wild yow1g scamps, whom their fathers lectured, and their mothers
cried over, th,ere might be ; and many, no doubt, who had sauntered
away life ta.lkmg of Italian independence, who, if Englishmen, moat
probably, or if Scotchmen, most certainly, would have worked hard
abroad ifnot at home for personal independence till the time came to fight
for that of th1,ir country ; but that the force, or any appreciable propor
tion of it, is made up of bad characters, I have no hesitation in denying.
There is a large number ofgentlemen-a large proportion appeared to be
sons of, or thE1mselves small proprietors, farmers, and tradesmen; the
remainder operatives and working men from town and country ; al men
who had worked honestly for their living, or did not require to do so,
decently and comfortably dressed, and all wonderfully tidy after sleeping
so long in th1!ir clothes. I did not see a ragged fellow among them.
Their behaviour was everywhere the 88Dle, quiet and orderly. Some I
saw in the handsome cathedral, admiring it, like ourselves. One or two
joined the service in a side chapeL The cafla were well frequented, too,
but in very many cues only to write letters, at which they were nry
grave. Othen1 patriotically did the amiable to the fair Comians, but I
saw not one drinking, all were sober and ready to fall in a moment's
notice. They 'l'rere good customers, but the patriotism ef the shopkeepers
did not vent itself in low prices. One young fellow I saw trying to pur
chase one pf the small leathern bags travellers sling over the shoulder,
but his francs were few and the seller obdurate, and he had to leave it.
"I was much interested in two young gentlemen, apparently brothers,
who were going from shop to shop fitting out the elder, who looked nine
teen or twenty. Tho younger had the seasoned look which a few weeks
give the if sleeping on wet ground 'under the canopy' does
not kill or send him to the hospital at once ; the elder had that bloom of
youth which survives hard contact with the world, never if with
personal hard11hip. The recruit was glowing with hopeful excitement;
war had. still its poetry for him, while the young veteran, though spirited,
was quiet and b116iness-like,-war wa11 a stern reality. Ho looked care-'
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