"Be assured I will die as I have lived, and that you will have no reason to blush for me."

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SuicidesPrisonersRevolutionariesPoliticians from IrelandAnglicans
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Letter to his wife, Matilda Tone (10 November 1798), quoted in T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell and C. J. Woods (eds.), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763–98, Volume III: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone, January 1797 to November 1798 (2007), p. 403