He decided to make a last effort. As he got up his voice was charged with emotion. “Prince, do you seriously refuse to do all in your power to alleviate, to attempt to remedy the state of physical squalor, of blind moral misery in which this people of yours lies? Climate can be overcome, the memory of evil regimes cancelled, for the Sicilians must want to improve; if honest men withdraw the way will be open for those with no scruples and no vision, for Sedàra and his like; and then everything will be as before for yet more centuries. Listen to your conscience, Prince, and not to the proud
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