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in palermo 33s
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She does not see that a cloud of fire hovers above
the horizon.
So he begins to walk back and forth again, and
she creeps back under shelter. There is no need of
his speaking to her, it is joy enough to have him
home again after two years’ absence. He was
sentenced to be away twenty-four. She had not
expected to see him more. But now the king has
pardoned him. For the king is a good man. Were he
only permitted to be as good as he would like to be.
Bosco crosses the deck and asks one of the seamen
if they do not see the gold-cloud yonder at the
horizon.
"That is Palermo," answered the seamen. "At
night there is always a light cloud like that
hovering over it."
It cannot be anything that concerns him. He
wishes to familiarize himself with the thought that
nothing is done for him. He cannot expect that all
shall have become socialists at once.
Yet after a while he thinks something unusual
must be going on. All the seamen assemble in the
foreship.
" Palermo is on fire," the seamen say.
Lo, it could very well be so.—It is because he
has suffered so terribly, that he expects that
something should be done for him.
But then the seamen spy the fires on the
mountains.
It cannot be a conflagration. It must be a
festival of some saint. They ask each other what the
name of the day is.
He also tries to believe that it is something of
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