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PALAZZO GERACI — PALAZZO CORVAJA 273
families themselves who competed with one another;
it was also their neighbors and dependents. All
Diamante is to this day divided into Geraci and
Corvaja. There is still a high, loop-holed wall
running across the town, dividing the part of Diamante
which stands by the Geraci from that which has
declared itself for the Corvaja.
Even in our day no one from Geraci will marry a
girl from Corvaja. And a shepherd from Corvaja
cannot let his sheep drink from a Geraci fountain.
They have not even the same saints. San Pasquale
is worshipped in Geraci, and the black Madonna is
Corvaja’s patron saint.
A man from Geraci can never believe but that all
Corvaja is full of magicians, witches, and
werewolves. A man from Corvaja will risk his
salvation that in Geraci there are none but rogues and
pick-pockets.
Donna Micaela lived in the Geraci district, and
soon all that part of the town were partisans of her
railway. But then Corvaja could do no less than to
oppose her.
The inhabitants of Corvaja specially disliked two
things. They were jealous of the reputation of the
black Madonna, and therefore did not like to have
another miracle-working image come to Diamante.
That was one thing. The other was that they feared
that Mongibello would bury all Diamante in ashes
and fire if any one tried to encircle it with a
railway.
A few days after the bazaar Palazzo Corvaja
began to show itself hostile. Donna Micaela one
day found on the roof-garden a lemon, which was so
thickly set with pins that it looked like a steel ball.
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