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the bells of san pasquale. 79
signorinas in order to make them mistresses of their
black lava palaces.
She liked the summer palace too. The faded,
century-old muslin, which covered the furniture told her
stories. And she found a deep meaning in all the
love scenes enacted between the shepherds and
shepherdesses on the wall panels.
Also the mystery regarding Don Ferrante she had
found out directly. He was by no means a common
shopkeeper on the street of a country town. He
was an ambitious man, who saved money in order
that he might buy back the family estates on Etna,
and the palace at Catania, and the castles on the
inland mountains. And if he went about in short
jacket and bag-cap, it was that he might all the
sooner appear as grandee of Spain and prince of
Sicily.
After they were married, Don Ferrante would
every evening throw over himself a velvet coat, take
the guitar under his arm and, placing himself on the
gallery-steps leading to the music-room in the
summer palace, would sing canzonets. While he sang,
Donna Micaela dreamed that she was married to the
noblest man on the beautiful Isle of Sicily.
When Donna Micaela had been married a couple
of months, her father came out of prison and settled
down in the summer palace with his daughter. He
was well pleased with Diamante and made friends
with everybody. He found pleasure in conversing
with bee-keepers and vineyard laborers, whom he
met at Cafe Europa, and he amused himself every
day by riding about on the slope of Etna seeking
archaeological remains.
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