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 ditions that it sprang from. If the mass of mankind in our cities are not thus nurtured we must anticipate only fierce animosities and contentions. The spirit of persecution that now pervades Europe springs directly from the multiplied famines, pestilences, black deaths, and similar horrors, that have at length produced their natural result in the ferocity of the human soul.”

The Lady Judith and her son, and the Lady Ludmila, and Agaphia, Milada and other of their former co-sufferers continued to reside in quietness at Fürstenberg. Here Lord Drda, and Nicolas Jaroslav, and Sambor found always a ready welcome. Gradually the soothing alleviation of time replaced the keen sufferings of the moment with a subdued cheerfulness that welcomed sympathy and love with a profounder appreciation.

The monument to Solomon at Ofen, and the simpler memorial tomb of Boppo at Gran long expressed the high estimation extended to those honored and lamented worthies.