192 WINTER SKETCHES. 



in a moment more he should breathe the last ; 

 and harder than all he was to die an ignomin- 

 ious death with the fear that its baseness would 

 ever attach to his memory. Who would not 

 have pitied him, and what man could there 

 have been in that assembly who would not 

 have rejoiced to have seen him go free if the 

 traitor Arnold could have been made to suffer 

 in his stead ? 



A touching tribute to his memory, written by 

 Dean Stanley on his visit to the spot, was en- 

 graved on the monument lately erected there 

 by one of our countrymen, but it was soon 

 destroyed by some persons who were actuated 

 by personal malice more than by patriotic zeal. 



