Before dusk the three or four whores of Donnafugata (there were some there, too, not organized but each hard at work on her own) appeared in the square with tricolor ribbons in their manes in protest against the exclusion of women from the vote; the poor creatures were jeered at even by the most advanced liberals and forced back to their lairs. This did not prevent the newspaper Giornale di Trinacria from telling the people of Palermo four days later that at Donnafugata “some gentle representatives of the fair sex wished to show their faith in the new and brilliant destinies of their beloved
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