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BOOK II
" Antichrist shall go from land to land and give bread to the
poor."
I
A GREAT MAN’S WIFE
It was in February and the almond-trees
commenced to blossom on the black lava fields round
about Diamante.
Cavaliere Palmeri had taken a walk up Etna and
brought home a large almond branch, full of buds
and flowers, and placed it in a vase in the
music-room.
Donna Micaela started when she saw it. They
had come, then, the almond flowers. And for a
whole month, for six whole weeks, they would be
found everywhere.
They would stand on the altar in church, they
would lie on the graves, and they would be worn in
the buttonhole, in the hat, in the hair. They would
bloom along the roads, among the ruins, on the
black lava. And every flower would remind her of
the day that the bells rang, when Gaetano was free
and happy, and she dreamed of a whole long life
with him.
It seemed to her as though she had never before
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