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mothers. When did I think Salvatore would
come out of the hospital? It was now nearly six
weeks since he had fallen from the scaffold and
broken his leg. Yes, I had just seen him at the
Hôpital Lariboisière, he was doing pretty well
and I hoped he would come out soon. How was
she getting on with her new landlord? Thank
God, very well, he was very kind, he had even
promised to put in a fireplace for next winter.
And wasn’t it nice of him to have opened that
little window under the ceiling, didn’t I remember
how dark the room was before?
“Look how bright and cheerful it is here now,
siamo in Paradiso,” said Salvatore’s wife. Was
it true what Arcangelo Fusco told her that I had
said to the old landlord, the day he had turned
her out in the street and seized all her belongings,
that the hour would come when God would punish
him for his cruelty to all of us poor people and
that I had cursed him so terribly that he had to
hang himself a couple of hours later? Yes, it was
quite true and I did not regret what I had done.
As we were going away, my friend Arcangelo
Fusco, who shared the room with the Salvatore
family, was just returning from his day’s work,
his big broom on his shoulder. His profession
was to fare la scopa—in those days most of the
street-sweepers in Paris were Italians. I was
glad to introduce him to the Countess, it was the
least I could do for him in return for the
invaluable service he had done to me when he had gone
with me to the police-station to corroborate my
evidence concerning the death of the old
landlord. God knows in what awkward
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