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342 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
they had discovered him, but it was of little avail.
They knock on the windows, and pound on the
door.
“Don Gaetano,” they cry; “Don Gaetano!”
Gaetano comes laughing out to the steps. They
wave their caps and cheer. He hurries down into
the crowd, and embraces one after another.
But that is not what they wish. He must go up
on the steps and make a speech. He must tell
them how cruel the government has been to him,
and how he has suffered in prison.
Gaetano laughs still, and stations himself on the
steps. “Prison,” he says; “what is it to talk
about? I have had my soup every day, and that is
more than many of you can say.”
Little Gandolfo swings his cap and calls to him:
“ There are many more socialists in Diamante now
than when you went away, Don Gaetano.”
“ How else could it be ? “ he laughs. ”
Everybody must become a socialist. Is socialism
anything dreadful or terrible ? Socialism is an idyl.
It is an idyl of one’s own home and happy work, of
which every one dreams from his childhood. A
whole world filled with — ”
He stops, for he has cast a glance towards the
summer-palace. There stands Donna Micaela on
one of the balconies, and looks down at him.
He does not think for a moment that it is an
illusion or a hallucination. He sees instantly that
she is flesh and blood. But just for that reason
— and also because the prison life has taken all
his strength from him, so that he cannot be
considered a well person —
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