that your lives too will pass calmly and tranquilly until the moment when
our souls meet again full of fresh force to love one another and to share
eternal happiness together.

"As for me, such as I have lived as long as I have known myself--that is
to say, in a serenity full of celestial desires and a courageous and
indefatigable love of liberty, such I am about to die.

"May God be with you and with me!--Your son, brother, and friend,
"KARL-LUDWIG SAND."

From that moment his serenity remained un troubled; during the whole day
he talked more gaily than usual, slept well, did not awake until
half-past seven, said that he felt stronger, and thanked God for visiting
him thus.

The nature of the verdict had been known since the day before, and it had
been learned that the execution was fixed for the 20th of May--that is
to say, three full days after the sentence had been read to the accused.

Henceforward, with Sand's permission, persons who wished to speak to him
and whom he was not reluctant to see, were admitted: three among these
paid him long and noteworthy visits.

One was Major Holzungen, of the Baden army, who was in command of the
patrol that had arrested him, or rather picked him up, dying, and carried
him to the hospital. He asked him whether he recognised him, and Sand's
head was so clear when he stabbed himself, that although he saw the major
only for a moment and had never seen him again since, he remembered the
minutest details of the costume which he had been wearing fourteen months