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CHAPTER XV.
SIEGE OF ROME.—MARGARET'S CARE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED.—ANXIETY ABOUT HER HUSBAND AND CHILD.—BATTLE BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN TROOPS.—THE SURRENDER.—GARIBALDI'S DÉPARTURE.—MARGARET JOINS HER HUSBAND AT HIS POST.—ANGELO'S ILLNESS.— LETTERS FROM FRIENDS IN AMERICA.—PERUGIA.—WINTER.—IN FLORENCE.—INTERIOR OF MARGARET'S ABODE.—ASPECT OF HER FUTURE.—HER COURAGE AND INDUSTRY.—OSBOLI'S AFFECTION FOR HER.—WILLIAM HENRY HURLBURT'S REMINISCENCES OF THEM BOTH.—LAST DAYS IN FLORENCE.—FAREWELL VISIT TO THE DUOMO.—MARGARET'S EVENINGS AT HOME.—HORACE SUMNER.—MARGARET AS A FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE.
Margaret writes to Emerson in June: "Since the 30th of April I go almost daily to the hospitals, and, though I have suffered, for I had no idea before how terrible gun-shot wounds and wound-fever are, yet I
