Byways in southern Tuscany . io6. MoNTALCiNO. A Gateway CHAPTER VII MoNTALCINO II ONTALCINO continued to hold outstoutly but not without much sufferingfrom hunger, even the women laboringside by side with the men; and once,these women hearing their governorwas considering yielding up the town,went to him in a body and remon-strated declaring they would rather athousand times be buried under theruins of their own walls than surrender to the enemiesof Siena. The siege stretched itself out till it had reached eightydays; then one morning the people, very hungry andweary, beheld a strange sight: D
Byways in southern Tuscany . io6. MoNTALCiNO. A Gateway CHAPTER VII MoNTALCINO II ONTALCINO continued to hold outstoutly but not without much sufferingfrom hunger, even the women laboringside by side with the men; and once,these women hearing their governorwas considering yielding up the town,went to him in a body and remon-strated declaring they would rather athousand times be buried under theruins of their own walls than surrender to the enemiesof Siena. The siege stretched itself out till it had reached eightydays; then one morning the people, very hungry andweary, beheld a strange sight: Don Garzias camp was indisorder, soldiers were shifting from place to place, beastswere being loaded, the very cannon were being moved. 107
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