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Episodes In The Life Of A Freemason.
attended him that his life was saved but by a hair ' s breadth , so near was the wound to that fatal region . The final issue of the affair was , that after some time , one Sardinian soldier and three peasants surrendered themselves at discretion to W and his only remaining trooper , and were conducted in triumph to the
Austrian camp . The matter was soon bruited about the army , and W , faint from loss of blood , and suffering great agony from the inflammation attending his wound , was conducted to the tent of Radetsky , to report the whole story to the General . It is needless to say how much his conduct was eulogised by the veteran Field Marshalwho immediately promoted him a step
, in his regiment , and promised to represent his gallant and courageous conduct to the Minister of war at Vienna . W 's wound was of so serious a nature as to preclude him entirely from performing his usual duties for some time , and he was sent to a neighbouring town , where , in the family of an Italian lady , he reeeiA r ed every comfort and attendance that his
necessities demanded . Under good medical advice , and the maternal care of this excellent old dame , the invalid , after a tedious confinement , at length began to progress towards recovery . The kindness which he received under this hospitable roof made a deep and lasting impression on his mind , and I have often heard him speak in the most affectionate terms of
the benevolent Signora B . The old lady , who was a devout Catholic , had masses said for his conversion ; and , on his quitting her house , she gave him a ring , and made him promise to correspond with her in future , —which he was constantly in the habit of doing up to the time of his death .
Cured of his ivound , and invigorated by rest and kind treatment , W returned to his regiment , and served through the rest of the Italian campaign with credit to himself and satisfaction to all his superior officers . At the conclusion of the war , he obtained leave to visit his native country ; and it was during his stay in England on that occasion , that I learned , for
the most part , an account of what has been here related . After he had spent about three months amongst his friends ( dming which time he sustained the loss of his venerable and beloved father ) , he was again called to the active duties of his profession , and his regiment was ordered to Hungary , ivhere the Avar was then raging in all its fury . Had I been engaged in writing a
military memoir , instead of " Masonic Episodes , " I might have sAvelled these pages to an unwarrantable length ; but , as I fear my readers will be already weary of so much matter that is not strictly Masonic , I must hasten to the conclusion of this paper . The Hungarian effort in the cause of liberty resulted , as is well
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Episodes In The Life Of A Freemason.
attended him that his life was saved but by a hair ' s breadth , so near was the wound to that fatal region . The final issue of the affair was , that after some time , one Sardinian soldier and three peasants surrendered themselves at discretion to W and his only remaining trooper , and were conducted in triumph to the
Austrian camp . The matter was soon bruited about the army , and W , faint from loss of blood , and suffering great agony from the inflammation attending his wound , was conducted to the tent of Radetsky , to report the whole story to the General . It is needless to say how much his conduct was eulogised by the veteran Field Marshalwho immediately promoted him a step
, in his regiment , and promised to represent his gallant and courageous conduct to the Minister of war at Vienna . W 's wound was of so serious a nature as to preclude him entirely from performing his usual duties for some time , and he was sent to a neighbouring town , where , in the family of an Italian lady , he reeeiA r ed every comfort and attendance that his
necessities demanded . Under good medical advice , and the maternal care of this excellent old dame , the invalid , after a tedious confinement , at length began to progress towards recovery . The kindness which he received under this hospitable roof made a deep and lasting impression on his mind , and I have often heard him speak in the most affectionate terms of
the benevolent Signora B . The old lady , who was a devout Catholic , had masses said for his conversion ; and , on his quitting her house , she gave him a ring , and made him promise to correspond with her in future , —which he was constantly in the habit of doing up to the time of his death .
Cured of his ivound , and invigorated by rest and kind treatment , W returned to his regiment , and served through the rest of the Italian campaign with credit to himself and satisfaction to all his superior officers . At the conclusion of the war , he obtained leave to visit his native country ; and it was during his stay in England on that occasion , that I learned , for
the most part , an account of what has been here related . After he had spent about three months amongst his friends ( dming which time he sustained the loss of his venerable and beloved father ) , he was again called to the active duties of his profession , and his regiment was ordered to Hungary , ivhere the Avar was then raging in all its fury . Had I been engaged in writing a
military memoir , instead of " Masonic Episodes , " I might have sAvelled these pages to an unwarrantable length ; but , as I fear my readers will be already weary of so much matter that is not strictly Masonic , I must hasten to the conclusion of this paper . The Hungarian effort in the cause of liberty resulted , as is well