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ALL the morning Nostromo had kept his eye from afar on the Casa Viola, even in the thick of the hottest scrimmage near the Custom House. “If I see smoke rising over there,” he thought to himself, “they are lost.” Directly the mob had broken he pressed with a small band of Italian workmen in that direction, which, indeed, was the shortest line towards the town. That part of the rabble1 he was pursuing seemed to think of making a stand under the house; a volley fired by his followers2 from behind an aloe hedge made the rascals3 fly. In a gap chopped out for the rails of the harbour branch line Nostromo appeared, mounted on his silver-grey mare4. He shouted, sent after them one shot from his revolver, and galloped5 up to the cafe window. He had an idea that old Giorgio would choose that part of the house for a refuge.
His voice had penetrated6 to them, sounding breathlessly hurried: “Hola! Vecchio! O, Vecchio! Is it all well with you in there?”
“You see —” murmured old Viola to his wife. Signora Teresa was silent now. Outside Nostromo laughed.
“I can hear the padrona is not dead.”
“You have done your best to kill me with fear,” cried Signora Teresa. She wanted to say something more, but her voice failed her.
Linda raised her eyes to her face for a moment, but old Giorgio shouted apologetically —
“She is a little upset.”
Outside Nostromo shouted back with another laugh —
“She cannot upset me.”
Signora Teresa found her voice.
“It is what I say. You have no heart — and you have no conscience, Gian’ Battista —”
They heard him wheel his horse away from the shutters8. The party he led were babbling
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