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falco falcone
29I
widow that she should not be permitted to build
this railroad. What did he mean by his threat ?
Why does he sit quiet, when they were defying his
interdiction ? Why does he not shoot down the
people of Corvaja, when they come stealing along
through the night with their wheelbarrows and
picks ? Why does he not drag the blind singers down
into the quarry and beat them ? Why does he not
steal Donna Micaela out of the summer palace that
he might demand a discontinuance of the railroad
building as a ransom for her life?
Donna Micaela says to herself: " Has Falco
Falcone forgotten his word, or is he waiting to strike
till he may descend with the hardest vengeance?"
And everybody asks in the same manner : " When
will Etna’s cinder-cloud burst and bury the railroad ?
When will Mongibello’s torrent dash it away ?
When is the mighty Falco Falcone ready to destroy
it?"
While they are waiting for Falco to destroy the
railroad, they talk about him a good deal,
particularly among the working men, who are with Signor
Alfredo.
Directly opposite the entrance to San Pasquale’s
church there stands, it is said, a little house on a
bare cliff. The house is narrow, and so high that it
resembles a chimney which is still standing after a
burned-down house.
It is so small that there is no room for the stairs
inside the house, so they wind along outside the
walls. Here and there hang balconies and other
projecting parts, arranged with no more symmetry than
birds’ nests on the trunk of a tree.
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