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106 the miracles of antichrist.
ing, nor could one read, because the letters swung
back and forth like clappers.
Soon the people could not bear the sight of flowers
that hung on long stems, because they imagined
that they too swung back and forth. And they
complained that they no longer had odor, but sound
only.
Others, however, declared that the mist which filled
the air moved in time to the sound of the bells, and
they said that all clock pendulums went by them and
that all who passed by out in the rain tried to do
likewise.
And that was when the bells had rung only a few
hours and when the people still laughed at them.
But the third hour the ringing seemed to increase
still more, and then some stuffed cotton in their ears,
while others buried themselves in pillows. But
notwithstanding this, one felt how the air vibrated, and
how everything moved in time. And they who
fled into the dark attic heard the sound of the bells
clearly and distinctly as though it came from the
sky, and they who fled into the cellar heard the
sound there, rolling and rumbling, as though San
Pas-qual’s church stood in the lower regions.
And all the people of Diamante began to be
frightened except Donna Micaela, who was protected
from all fear by love.
Now they began to think that it must signify
something that it was San Pasquale’s bells that
rang. And all began to ask what the saint predicted.
Each one had his or her own fear, and
believed that San Pasquale augured just what was
least wanted. And every one had some conscience-
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