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108 the miracles of antichrist.
penitents, that they were obliged to sit in the
confessional all day, and although gift upon gift was
placed before the altars of the saints.
Not even Vicenzo da Lozzo, the letter writer,
rejoiced at the day, although many besieged his
writing-table under the court-house loggia, and would gladly
pay a soldo per word, if he would write for them on
this, the last day, a farewell message to the absent
loved ones.
There was no possibility of keeping school that
day, for the children cried the whole time. At noon
the mothers came, their faces rigid with fright, and
took the little ones home with them, so that they
might at least be together if anything happened.
Likewise all tailor and shoemaker apprentices had
a holiday. But the poor boys dared not enjoy it,
but would rather remain in the workshop and wait.
And the ringing still continued in the afternoon.
Then the old porter at Palazzo Geraci, where now
only beggars live, who himself is a beggar clad in
rags, donned the light green velvet livery, which he
only uses at the feasts of the saints and on the king’s
birthday. And no one saw him sitting there in his
doorway, wearing this splendor, without a shudder
of fear, for one well knew that the old man expected
that nothing less than ruin would rush in through the
gate he was watching.
It was pitiful how the people frightened each
other.
Torino, poor fellow, who once had been a
well-to-do man went from house to house proclaiming that
now the time had come when all who had deceived
and impoverished him would be punished. He
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