I felt most deeply self-reproach on that day when, at the mouth of the Po, having landed, in our retreat from an Austrian squadron, while still hoping to restore her to life, on taking her pulse I found her a corpse, and sang the hymn of despair.
Garibaldi recounts the devastating moment he discovered his wife Anita had died during their retreat from Austrian forces.
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