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FALCO FALCONE
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Pepa back. ’ No,’ she said, ’ the girl is not honest.’
’ Pepa had the bread from Signor Gasparo,’ I said;
’ask him.’ ’I cannot ask him,’ said the signora;
’ he is away, and comes home next month.1 ’
Signora,’ I said, ’ we are so poor. Let Pepa come
back to her place.’ 1 No,’ she said; 4 I myself will
leave Signor Gasparo if he takes that girl back.’
4 Take care,’ I said then; * if you take bread from
me, I will take life from you.’ Then she was
frightened and called others in, so that I had to
go.”
“ What is to be done about it ?” said Nino. “ Pepa
must find some other work.”
“Nino,” said Mother Zia, “you do not know what
that woman has said to the neighbors about Pepa
and Signor Gasparo.”
“Who can prevent women from talking?” said
Nino.
“If Pepa has nothing else to do, now she might
at least have cooked dinner for us,” said Turiddo.
“ Signora Gasparo has said that her husband let
Pepa steal bread that she should —”
“Mother,” interrupted Nino, red as fire, “I do
not intend to have myself put in the galleys for
Pepa’s sake.”
“The galleys do not eat Christians,” said Mother
Zia.
“Nino,” said Pietro, “we had better go to the
town to get some food.”
As they said it they heard some one laugh
behind them. It was Falco who laughed.
A while later Falco entered Signora Gasparo’s
shop and asked for bread. The poor woman was
frightened when Pepa’s brother came into the shop
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