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i so THE MIRACLES OF* ANTICHRIST
long, dagger-like blade. As she lifted it up several
dark drops trickled down the edge. She understood
it must be blood.
And likewise she understood that what she had
feared the whole autumn, had now happened. The
brigands had been in the summer-palace to plunder.
And all there, who had been able to fly, had done so,
but her father, who could not rise from his bed, must
now be murdered.
It was impossible for her to know whether the
robbers were not still in the house. Now, however, when
she was in the midst of the greatest danger, her fear
vanished, and she hurried on, without stopping to
consider that she was alone and defenseless.
She passed through the gallery and entered the
music-salon. In there the moonlight fell in broad
streaks on the floor and in one of these streaks a
human being lay outstretched.
Donna Micaela bent down over this motionless form.
It was Giannita. She was murdered, she had a deep
gaping wound in the throat.
Donna Micaela laid the body to rights, crossed the
hands over the breast, and closed the eyes. In doing
this, blood came on her hands, and when she felt this
warm, sticky blood, she began to cry. " Ah, my kind,
beloved sister," she said. " Your young life has passed
away with this blood. Through your whole life you
have loved me, and now you have shed your blood
in defending my house. Is it to punish my hardness
of heart, that God has taken you away from me ?
Is it because I grudged your loving my beloved, who
has now departed from me ? Ah, sister, sister, could
you not punish me less severely ? "
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