Excerpt from Avanti!: A Tale of the Resurrection of Sicily 1860 Come, fratello mio, said Paolo, it must be at least fifteen o'clock, for see I the smoke of the volcano drops its shadow far down on the eastern slope. Giuseppe raised his head by throwing his arms back of it as a pillow, and observed other evidences of the hour. The green lizards that had been basking sleepily in the noonday sun were now running in and out of their crannies in the loose stone walls, and darting their split tongues at the insects that must serve for their evening meal. The birds, too, which had made no sign in the midday stillness, were shaking their heads, winking the sleep hlms from their eyes, and beginning to flit from bush to tree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.