Carriages dash by me full of red jackets, or of men and women brandishing swords and pikes, whilst the rain is pouring down in torrents, and the thunder is pealing, as if it were a salute of heaven for the liberator of the Two Sicilies.
Describing his entry into Naples, he observes the tumultuous weather as a sign of the momentous occasion.
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The sufferings which I endured after being unbound were indescribable: yet I did not complain.
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