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 -  Then another man said: 

I hate those Sicilians; I have good personal reasons for hating them.
But no Sicilian fears - Page 184
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Then Another Man Said:

"I hate those Sicilians; I have good personal reasons for hating them. But no Sicilian fears death. If they are not brilliant soldiers, they certainly make first-class assassins, which is only another branch of the same business. This boy deserts not because he is afraid of death, but because he still owes a debt. He feels he ought to do something to repay his parents who nursed him when he was a child, and not be sacrificed to that kidnapping camorra of blackguards out yonder" - and he pointed with his thumb, spitting contemptuously the while, in the direction of Rome.

Nobody had any comment to make on this speech. Not a word of protest was raised. The man was entitled to an opinion like everybody else, and might even have obtained his share of approval had the victim been a native. He was only a Sicilian - an outsider. What is one to say of this patriarchal, or parochial, attitude? The enlargement of Italy's boundaries - Albania, Cyrenaica, Asia Minor and so forth - is an ideal that few Italians bother their heads about. They are not sufficiently dense - not yet. [17] To found a world-empire like the British or Roman calls for a certain bullet-headed crassness. One has only to look at the Germans, who have been trying to do so for some time past. That collecting mania.... One single boy who collects postage stamps can infect his whole school with the complaint, and make them all jealous of his fine specimens.

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