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(1909) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Pauline Bancroft Flach
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FALCO FALCONE

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across to Italy; he fancies he sees Naples and
Rome. He lets his glance pass over the sea to the
land of the Turk to the east and the land of the
Saracen to the south. He feels as if it all lay at
his feet and acknowledged his greatness.

Then Falco lays the wreath on the summit of
Mongibello.

When he comes down to his comrades he solemnly
presses their hands. As he leaves the cone they
see that he picks up a piece of pumice-stone, and
puts it in his pocket. Falco takes with him a
souvenir of the most beautiful hour of his life. He
has never before felt himself so great as on the top
of Mongibello.

On that day of happiness Falco will do no work.
The next day, he says, he will begin the
undertaking of freeing Mongibello from the railway.
• • •••••••

There is a lonely farm-house on the road between
Patern6 and Aderno. It is quite large, and it is
owned by a widow, Donna Silvia, who has many
strong sons. They are bold people who dare to live
alone the whole year 111 the country.

It is the day following the one when Falco crowned
Mongibello. Donna Silvia is sitting on the
grass-plot with her distaff; she is alone; there is no one else
at home on the farm. A beggar comes softly
creeping in through the gate.

He is an old man with a long, hooked nose which
hangs down over his upper lip, a bushy beard, pale
eyes with red eyelids. They are the ugliest eyes
imaginable; the whites are yellowish, and they
squint. The beggar is tall and very thin; he moves
his body when he walks, so that it looks as if he

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