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132 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST
Ah, the government had at last heard of it, and it
had appointed a committee. It was a great comfort
to see the members of the committee come driving
one fine day along the Corso in Diamante. If only
the people had understood that they wished them
well! If the women had not stood in their
doorways and spat at the fine gentlemen from the
mainland ; if the children had not run beside the carriages
and cried: “Thief, thief!”
Everything they did only stirred up the revolt,
and there was no one who could control the people
and quiet them. They trusted no officials. They
despised those least who only took bribes. But
people said that many belonged to the society of
Mafia; they said that their one thought was to extort
money and acquire power.
As time went on, several signs showed that
something terrible was impending. In the papers they
wrote that crowds of working-men were gathering in
the larger towns and wandering about the streets.
People read also in the papers how the socialist
leaders were going through the country, and making
seditious speeches. All at once it became clear to
Donna Micaela whence all the trouble came. The
socialists were inciting the revolt. It was their
firebrand speeches that set the blood of the people
boiling. How could they let them do it? Who was
king in Sicily? Was his name Don Felice, or
Umberto ?
Donna Micaela felt a horror which she could not
shake off. It was as if they had conspired especially
against her. And the more she heard of the
socialists, the more she feared them.
Giannita tried to calm her. “We have not a
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