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FIRST BOOK
“ There shall be great want19
I
MONGIBELLO
Towards the end of the seventies there was in
Palermo a poor boy whose name was Gaetano
Ala-gona. That was lucky for him! If he had not been
one of the old Alagonas people would have let him
starve to death. He was only a child, and had
neither money nor parents. The Jesuits of Santa
Maria i Jesu had taken him out of charity into the
cloister school.
One day, when studying his lesson, a father came
and called him from the school-room, because a
cousin wished to see him. What, a cousin! He
had always heard that all his relatives were dead.
But Father Josef insisted that it was a real Signora,
who was his relative and wished to take him out of
the monastery. It became worse and worse. Did
she want to take him out of the monastery? That
she could never do! He was going to be a monk.
He did not at all wish to see the Signora. Could
not Father Josef tell her that Gaetano would never
leave the monastery, and that it was of no avail to
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