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the godsister
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running. " Giornaleda Sicilia ! " he cried. " The
Pal-meri affair ! Great impostures ! "
The tall Giannita seized the boy by the back of
the neck, as he rushed by. " What do you say ? "
she cried. " You lie ! You lie ! " and she nearly struck
him.
" Buy my paper, signora, before you strike me,"
said the boy. Giannita bought the paper and began
to read. There she immediately found about the
Palmeri affair. " As this case is discussed in court
today," it read, " we will here render an account of
the same." Giannita read and read. She read it
over and over again, before she understood. There
was not a muscle in her body which did not begin
to tremble with fright, when finally she
comprehended.
Her godsister’s father, who had owned large
vineyards, had become ruined, because a vine disease had
laid them waste. And this was the least. He had
also embezzled a charity fund intrusted to him.
He was arrested, and to-day he would appear at
court.
Giannita crushed together the paper, threw it on
the street and trampled on it. That which brought
such news deserved no better.
Afterwards she stood completely bewildered at
the fact that this should be in store for her, when
she came to Catania for the first time in twelve years.
" O Lord," she said, " is there any meaning in this ? "
At home in Diamante no one probably had cared
to tell her what was going on. Was it a dispensation
of Providence that she should be here on the very
day of the trial ?
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