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UNDER THE SHADOW OF ETNA.
pacchiotta, a young wolf herself, every time that she saw her coming back from the fields, silent and pale.
"Vile! scellerata!" she would say, "Vile mamma."
"Hold your tongue!"
"Thief! thief!"
"Hold your tongue!"
"I'll go to the brigadiere!"[1]
And she actually went with her infants in her arms, without a sign of fear, and without shedding a tear, like a crazy woman, because now she passionately loved that husband whom she had been forced to marry, greasy and dirty as he was from the olives set to fermenting.
The brigadiere summoned Nanni, and threatened him with the galleys and the gallows, Nanni began to weep, and pull his hair; he denied nothing, did not try to justify himself."
"The temptation was too much," said
- ↑ Brigadiere is the station or the Commandant of the detachment of the Carabaneers in a small town.
