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only of this world
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to buy the boy of Orestes, and place him among the
little carts. But Orestes said no. His boy should
not be ruined by such work.
" The engineer threatened, and said that Orestes
should be driven away from the mine.
Santuzza made a pause.
" And so ? " asked Margherita.
" Well, then, Orestes let the engineer have the
boy. The next day he whipped him. He whipped
him every day. The boy became more and more
wretched. Orestes saw it and begged the engineer to
spare the boy, but he had no pity. He said that the
boy was lazy, and continued to persecute him.—And
now he is dead. My grandson is dead, Margherita."
The girl had at once forgotten all her happiness.
She was again only the miner’s daughter, the little
cart’s patroness, the poor child that used to sit there
on the bright platform weeping over the misery in the
black mines.
"Why is that man allowed to live?" she
exclaimed. .
The woman looked treacherously at her and
stealthily drew forth a knife. Orestes sends you this
with a thousand questions," she said.
Margherita Cornado took the knife, kissed the
blade and gave it back without a word.
Came the night before the wedding. The
bridegroom’s parents were expecting the son. He was to
come home from the mines toward the close of the
day. But he did not come. Late in the night a
servant was sent to the Grotte mines to seek him. He
was found a mile from Girgenti. He lay murdered
by the roadside.
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