8/83 "We can assure you at once that the Saint is not in prison." Applause burst forth, and cries of _viva_ and _bravo_. But another of the six, braver and more daring, climbed up and retorted with violence. Then the howls and invectives were redoubled, "They have fooled you!" the people shouted. "Idiots that you are! They have put him in prison! In prison!" The cry spread; those at a distance heard it, who had heard nothing else, and those who could hear neither the cry nor anything else felt the dark, magnetic waves of wrath pierce their breasts. Many howled "_Abbasso_! Down with him!" without knowing whose fall they desired. |