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the oasis and the desert 331
sons of the highest authority in Rome, and she felt
sure that she should be permitted to speak with him.
But the prison-director sent her to the prison-doctor.
The latter forbade her to speak to Gaetano.
" You wish to see that prisoner," he said. " You
cannot. You say that he loves you and thinks
you dead. Let him think so ! He is reconciled to
die. He suffers no more from longing. Do you
wish him to learn that you are living, so that he shall
begin to long? You wish to kill him then? I will
tell you something; should he begin to long for
the world he will be dead within three months.
He spoke in such a manner that Donna Micaela
understood that she must give up seeing Gaetano.
But what a disappointment, what a disappointment!
When she came home, she felt as one who had
dreamed so vividly that not even after he has waked
is he able to come out of his dreams. She could not
conceive that all her hopes had been defeated. She
surprised herself again and again by thinking like
this: "When I have rescued Gaetano." But now
she had no hope of saving him.
She thought now of one enterprise, now of
another, which she wished to start. Should she ditch
around the plain, or should she mine marble on
Etna ? She hesitated and wondered. She could not
adhere to anything.
The same listlessness, which had seized Donna
Micaela, crept over the whole city. It became
apparent that everything which was dependent on
people who did not believe on Diamante’s image of
Christ, was badly managed and proved a failure.
Even the Etna railroad was managed improperly.
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