[What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookWhat I Remember, Volume 2 CHAPTER XIII 11/36
Part went off last evening--1,500.
We go in three steamers, and shall overtake the others. "With kind regards to all friends, believe me, "Yours very faithfully, "JOHN PEARD." * * * * * The remarks contained in the former of the two letters here transcribed seem to make this a proper place for recording "what I remember" of Garibaldi. My first acquaintance with him was through my very old, and very highly valued, loved, and esteemed friend, Jessie White Mario.
The Garibaldi _culte_ has been with her truly and literally the object (apart from her devoted love for her husband, an equally ardent worshipper at the same shrine) for which she has lived, and for which she has again and again affronted death.
For she accompanied him in all his Italian campaigns as a hospital nurse, and on many occasions rendered her inestimable services in that capacity under fire.
If Peard has been called "Garibaldi's Englishman," truly Jessie White Mario deserves yet more emphatically the title of "Garibaldi's Englishwoman." She has published a large life of Garibaldi, which is far and away the best and most trustworthy account of the man and his wonderful works.
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