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i so the miracles of* antichrist
cruel, that she snatched the wreath away from Donna
Elisa and threw it at her feet, and asked if she
wanted to murder her.
Then she walked by her up the steps and into her
room. She threw herself on the sofa and buried her
face in the pillows.
Until now she had not understood how these
outward conditions separated her from Gaetano. A
friend of the people could not love her.
And moreover, she felt as though she had
prevented him from aiding all these poor ones.
How he must detest her, how he must hate her!
And her old malady came stealing over her again.
This malady which consisted in not being loved ! It
would murder her. It seemed to her as she lay
there, that all was past, all was ended. Suddenly
the image of the little Christ-child appeared to her
inner vision. It was as if he had entered the room
in all his miserable pomp. She saw him plainly.
Donna Micaela began to invoke the Christ-child’s
aid. And she wondered that she had not before
turned to this kind helper. No doubt it was because
the image did not stand in a church, but was carried
about like an article of curiosity by Miss Tottenham
who only remembered him in her severest trials.
It was late in the evening of the same day. After
dinner Donna Micaela had given her servants
permission to go to the feast, so that she and her father
were alone in the large house. But about ten o’clock
her father rose and said, that he would like to hear
the song competition at the market-place. And
when he went Donna Micaela dared not sit all alone
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