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i so the miracles of* antichrist
Did n’t the government know of the ill feeling ?
Ah, the government had finally learned of it and had
appointed a committee. It was a great comfort to
see the delegates come riding one day along the
Corso in Diamante. If only the people had
understood that they meant well by them. But the women
had stood in their doorways, spitting at the fine
gentlemen from the mainland, and the children had ran
after the carriage shouting : " Thief, thief! "
Everything one did only stimulated the
insurrection. And there was no one who could take charge
of the people and pacify them. The government
officials were not to be trusted. Those who only took
bribes, were least despised. It was said, however,
that several were members of Mafian, and that all
they thought of was to rifle money and gain power.
As the time passed, signs signifying that something
terrible was approaching grew more numerous. In
the papers one read that throngs of laborers gathered
in the large cities and marched through the streets.
One also read in the papers of how the socialist
leaders traveled through the country, making
exciting speeches. And at once it became clear to Donna
Micaela where all the trouble came from. It was the
socialists that goaded the insurrection onward. It
was their speeches that set the minds fermenting.
How could they be allowed to do this? Who then
was king of Sicily? Was his name Don Felice or
Umberto ?
Donna Micaela felt a horror which never left her.
It was as if one had conspired against her. And the
more she heard about the socialists, the more she
feared them.
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