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(1899) [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Selma Ahlström Trotz
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falco falcone 29i

29I

on his gun-barrel, and approaches the others. Then
all three ascend out of the quarry, and at the nearest
farm they take horses, in order that they may
quickly reach the top of Mongibello.

They ride at a sweeping pace, so that they have
not opportunity to talk, but as they pass the farms
they can see how the people are dancing on the flat
roofs. And from the sheds, where the farm hands
encamp for the night, they hear talking and laughter.
There sit happy and peaceful people guessing riddles
and jesting. But Falco rushes by. Such is not for
him. Falco is a great man.

They dash upwards towards the heights. First,
they ride between the almond trees and cactus,
then under plantain trees and stone-pines, and so
under oaks and chestnuts.

But the night is dark ; they see nothing of
Mongi-bello’s grandeur. They see not the vine entwined
Monte Rosso ; they see not the three hundred
crater-mouths which stand in a circle round about
Etna’s top like towers round a city; they see not
the infinite charms of the woodlands.

At Casa del Bosco, where the road terminates,
they dismount. Biagio and Passafiore take the
wreath and carry it between them. But as they
proceed, Falco begins to talk. Since he has become
old, he likes to talk.

And Falco says that the mountain is like the
twenty-five years of his life which he has lived there.
Around the foundation years of his greatness grand
deeds had flourished. To journey with him then,
had been like moving beneath an endless pergola,
where lemons and grapes hung over their heads.

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