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’palazzo geraci and palazzo corvaja 283
evident that she was about to lose her life’s
happiness.
It was a woman who had been very beautiful,
although all freshness was now gone, for she was no
longer young. Still it was a grand and striking face.
" Here dwells a soul that can love and suffer," said
the face. Donna Micaela felt herself drawn toward
this poor woman as toward a sister.
" No, it is not time to go yet," she said to Donna
Elisa.
The carabineer asked and asked if they would allow
him to pass.
No, no, no ! Not before he gave back the child.
The child was Piero’s and his wife Marcia’s. Bat
they were not her real parents. That was what the
quarrel was about.
The carabineer endeavored to win the people over
to his side by fair means. He tried to convince, not
Piero or Marcia, but the others. " It is Ninetta who
is mother to the child," he said, " you know that, do
you not ? She has not been able to have the child
with her, while she has been unmarried, but now she
is married and wants her child back. And now
Marcia refuses to give her the boy. It is hard for
Ninetta, who has not had her child with her for eight
years. Marcia will not give it up. She turns Ninetta
out when she comes begging for her child. Finally
Ninetta felt obliged to complain to the syndic. And
the syndic has told us to get the child for her. And
besides is it not Ninetta’s child ? " he said appealingly.
But that had but little effect on Corvaja’s men.
" Ninetta is a Geraci," burst out Piero, and the
circle stood firm around the carabineer.
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