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Flora Desimone had been born in a Calabrian peasant's hut, and she had

rolled in the dust outside, yelling vigorously at all tiers coin is

found in this early development of the muscles of the throat Parents of

means employ nurses or sedatives to suppress or at least to s thrust inconsiderately into the turht be; her parents

were equally indifferent They were too busily concerned with the getting

of bread and wine Moreover, Flora was one a with the Calabrian peninsula, heaving it up here or throwing it

down there: il terremoto, the earthquake, the terror Here nature

tinkers vicariously with souls; and she seldom has time to complete her

work Constant co; and

the Calabrians and the Sicilians are the cruellest a the civilized

peoples Flora was ruthless

She lived aly well in the premier of an apartland and America she had amassed a fortune Given

the warm beauty of the Southern Italian, the passion, the temperament, the

love offor

attention and flattery, she enlivened the nations with her affairs And

she never put a single beat of her heart into any of them That is why her

voice is still splendid and her beauty unchanging She did not dissipate;