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’palazzo geraci and palazzo corvaja 287
awaits them when they have wounded their
husband’s honor.
The only one who tried to defend her was Donna
Micaela. She would never have begged Marcia to
confess, she said to Piero, had she known how he
was. She had believed that he was a noble man. A
noble man would have said like this : You have acted
wickedly but this your confessing your crime before
all and exposing yourself to my anger for the sake of
saving the child, atones for all. That is punishment
enough. A noble man would have taken the child
on one arm, laid the other around his wife and gone
joyfully to his home. A signor would have acted
so. But he was no signor, he was a blood-hound.
She might talk as much as she pleased, the man
did not hear her, the woman did not hear her. It
was as if her words had been thrown back by an
impenetrable wall.
Just then the child came forward to the father and
tried to take his hand. He looked at the boy enraged.
Now that he was dressed in girl’s clothes and had
his hair combed smoothly back behind his ears, he
saw the likeness between him and Marcia, which he
had never noticed before. He kicked Marcia’s son
aside.
It was an awful moment. The neighbors
continued to withdraw quietly and slowly. Many went
unwillingly and hesitatingly, but they went
nevertheless. The man seemed only to be waiting until the
last one should go.
Donna Micaela ceased speaking; instead she took
the image and laid it in Marcia’s arms. " Take it,
sister, and may it protect you," she said.
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