A hundred years ago this business of a missing link, of getting such papers “through” was an important element in the lives of many Sicilians, causing alternating exaltation and depression to thousands of respectable or not so respectable folk; but the subject is too important to be treated fleetingly, and we will content ourselves with saying here that Don Calogero’s heraldic impromptu gave the Prince the incomparable artistic satisfaction of seeing a type realised in all its details; and that he gave a depressed laugh ending in a sweetish taste of nausea.
