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i so the miracles of* antichrist
Still she had not wished to do anything wicked.
All she had desired had been to learn if Gaetano loved
her.
Again a few weeks passed, and Donna Micaela sat
constantly with Don Ferrante.
But one day Donna Elisahad persuaded her to go
out. " Come down into my garden, sister-in-law, and
look at my big magnolia tree. You’ve never seen
anything so beautiful."
She had followed Donna Elisa across the street
and entered her garden. And Donna Elisa’s magnolia
was like the radiant sun, so that one became aware
of it even before one saw it. The air was filled with
its fragrance and there was such a humming of bees
and twittering of birds !
When Donna Micaela saw the tree, she could
hardly breathe. It was very tall and large, with a
graceful regular growth, and its large, firm leaves
were of a fresh dark-green shade. Now it was
completely covered with large white flowers which so
illumined and adorned it that one fancied it arrayed
for a feast, and one felt how an intoxicating joy
exhaled from the tree. And Donna Micaela felt a
strange, irresistible power gaining control over her.
She drew down one of the stiff twigs, spread out the
flower, which it bore without breaking it, took a pin
and began to prick letters in the petals.—" What
are you doing, sister-in-law?" asked Donna Elisa.—
" O, nothing, nothing."—" In my time the young
girls used to prick love-letters in the magnolia
blossoms."—" Perhaps they do so still."—" Take care, I
shall look and see what you have written, when you
are gone."—" But you can’t read,"—" I have Gae-
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