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SECOND BOOK
“ A ntichrist shall go from land to la7id and
give bread to the poor”
I
A GREAT MAN’S WIFE
It was in February, and the almond-trees were
beginning to blossom on the black lava about
Diamante.
Cavaliere Palmeri had taken a walk up Etna and
had brought home a big almond branch, full of buds
and flowers and put it in a vase in the music-room.
Donna Micaela started when she saw it. So they
had already come, the almond-blossoms. And for a
whole month, for six long weeks, they would be
everywhere.
They would stand on the altar in the church;
they would lie on the graves, and they would be
worn on the breast, on the hat, in the hair. They
would blossom over the roads, in the heaps of ruins,
on the black lava. And every almond-flower would
remind her of the day when the bells rang, when
Gaetano was free and happy, and when she dreamed
of passing her whole life with him.
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