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I learned that he purchased them in a paese to the southward, beyond the forest and beyond the ridge of the hills; but he made a mystery of this, and I had to be content with his word that in Corsica folk in the bush need never starve.
But it passed, and in the early morning he stood in the corner of the Campo Santo where Protestants were buried, and threw flowers from his father's terreno into an open grave. And once more his Padrona was alone. Far away from Sicily, from his "Paese," among the great woods of the Abetone he received for the first time into his untutored arms his Padroncina. His Padrone was gone from him forever.
Social philosophers have much to say against the restricted nature of that intensely concentrated form of patriotism in which the love and pride in one's own native place one's paese, as the old Italian phrase went is a species of religion.
"You are a child," he said, "and have never been away from your 'paese." "Yes, I have." "Where?" "I have been to the fair of San Felice." He smiled. "Oh San Felice! And did you go in the train?" "Oh no, signore. I went on a donkey. It was last year, in June. It was beautiful.
And I am inclined to believe that in the case, at all events, of ordinary people the love of one's own "paese" that church-steeple patriotism that it has become a fashion with a certain school of politicians to deride is very often a yet stronger passion and a more powerful incentive to great deeds than even the love of country in a larger sense.
"At last there came a day when, from a goatherd who brought us meat and wine from the next paese, we learned that a body of armed men, Corsicans, had pushed up to Olmeta, near by Nonza, to press the Genoese garrison there. Sir John, sick of waiting idle, proposed that we should travel back and help them, if only to fill up the time.
At Pelago, a little paése village we should call it on the Arno some fourteen or fifteen miles above Florence, we were to find saddle-horses, the journey we were about to make being in those days practicable in no other way, unless on foot. There was at that time a certain Antonio da Pelago, whose calling it was to act as guide, and to furnish horses.
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