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the miracles of antichrist.
ing holy images, that Donna Elisa might have
something to sell at home, while he earned great riches
far away in Argentine.
When she now saw Gaetano, she thought him so
handsome that it gave her pleasure to look at him.
She was then in great trouble and as restless as a
hunted animal, but no sorrow in the world could
hinder her from experiencing pleasure as soon as
she saw something beautiful.
She asked herself where she had seen him before,
and she remembered that she had seen his face in
her father’s splendid collection of paintings in the
palace at Catania. There he had not been in
work-ing-man’s blouse, but had worn a black felt hat with
long, swaying plumes, and a broad lace collar over
the velvet coat. And he had been painted by the
great master Van Dyck.
Donna Micaela asked Gaetano for a wax candle,
and he began to look for one. And now the queerest
thing happened; Gaetano, who saw the little shop
daily, seemed to be wholly unfamiliar with it. He
sought the candles in the rosary drawer and in the
small medal cases. He found none, and he grew so
impatient, that he upset boxes and drawers and
broke images. Everywhere was ruin and confusion.
And it would be a real vexation to Donna Elisa
when she came home.
But Donna Micaela enjoyed seeing how he shook
the luxuriant hair from off his face and how the
yellowish-brown eyes gleamed like yellow wine
when the sunshine strikes it. She found comfort in
gazing at one so beautiful.
And Donna Micaela apologized to the noble gen-
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