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next Sunday if you are still here. Then came
another angel with a big moneybox in his hands.
“‘Open it,’ said the angel, ‘it is all your
savings, all the coppers you gave away to those as
poor as yourself. All you give away on earth is
saved for you in Heaven, all you keep is lost.’
“Would you believe it, there was not a single
copper in the moneybox, all my coppers had
been turned into gold.”
“I say,” he added in a whisper lest the
archangel should hear us, “I do not know who you
are but you look rather badly off, do not take it
amiss if I just tell you that you are welcome to
anything you like from the moneybox. I said
to the angel I did not know what to do with all
this money, and the angel told me to give it to
the first beggar I should meet.”
“Would that I had followed your example,
Arcangelo Fusco, and I should not be as badly off
as I am to-day. Alas! I did not give away my
Sunday clothes, that is why I am all in rags now.
Indeed it is a great relief to me that they did not
ask you for particulars about the Neapolitan
shoemaker you dispatched to another world.
God knows how many shoemakers’ lives I might
have been made to answer for, I who have been
a doctor for over thirty years!”
The golden curtain was drawn aside by
invisible hands and an angel stood before us.
“Your time has come to appear before your
judges,” said the old Archangel. “Be humble
and be silent, above all be silent! Remember it
was speech that brought about my fall, so it will
bring about yours if you loosen your tongue.”
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