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...near sundown before the lottery was over, and Ente Sila's tired, bright-eyed Ezio Conti could show Amerigo his exact plot of land. They walked to a sandy path overhung with crumbling redstone cliffs. Below on the left stretched the land of Cuocino. With a tremor in his voice for the first time, Amerigo said: "It's somewhere down there...
Though Maggie was born in Karachi, India, she was brought up in lower-middle-class South London. At Italia Conti's dramatic school for children, where Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence studied, Maggie got her start as a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...missing: surly, bewhiskered Olinto Conti, who was Riofreddo's only avowed Communist...
...taps." Counting on his fingers, he said: "There's him, there's his wife Maria, his daughter. Think of it, three votes for the Communists. What a disgrace for all of us." Then he brightened. He had hit on a scheme. He knew that raven-locked Maria Conti, the only woman in Riofreddo who wore modern clothes, hated the drudgery of housework: she was a career woman at heart. Swinging his green umbrella. Father Francesco promptly departed to make Maria Conti head of the women's branch of Catholic Action...
...this happy moment a wild shout was heard at the back of the barn. The audience turned to see allegory brought up to date. Brandishing a long broom, Maria Conti rushed in behind her Communist husband. "If you think you can keep me just listening to your ideas when it's my duty to occupy an important official post," she shouted, "you'll have to buy me a new broom...