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do you know that he is driving about the streets
of Rome with a carriage and pair, they say he even
went to see the Pope when he had influenza?
I tell you, compagni, there is nobody like him,
he is the greatest doctor in Rome, come with me
to my cemetery and you will see for yourself!
Sempre lui! Sempre lui! As to me and my
family I do not know what we should do without
him, he is our benefactor. To whom do you think
my wife is selling all her wreaths and flowers, if
not to his customers! And all these foreigners
who ring the bell at the gate and give their penny
to my children for being let in, why do you think
they have come there, what do you think they
want? Of course my children don’t understand
what they are talking about, and often had to
wander all over the cemetery with them before they
found what they wanted. Now as soon as some
foreigners ring the bell my children know at once
what they want and take them straight to his
row of graves, and they are always very pleased
and give the children an extra penny. Sempre
lui! Sempre lui! There is hardly a month he
does not cut open some of his patients in the
mortuary chapel to try to find out what was the
matter with them, he gives me fifty lire apiece
for putting them back in their coffins. I tell
you, compagni! there is nobody like him!
Sempre lui! Sempre lui!”
The cloud had already drifted away, the sea was
once more radiant with golden light, my fear was
gone. The devil himself can do nothing to a man
as long as he can laugh.
The dinner party broke up. Glad to be alive,
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