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(1899) [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Selma Ahlström Trotz
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eyebrows several times in the drollest manner. So
she began to tell about herself.

It seemed as if Donna Elisa had the very
smallest house in the whole city. It lay opposite
the summer palace, but that was its only merit.
She had a little shop where she sold medals and wax
candles and everything belonging to divine service.

But with all respect for Father Josef, there was not
much profit in that kind of trade nowadays,
however it might have been formerly. Behind the store
was a small workshop where her husband had stood
and carved images of saints and rosary beads, for he
had been an artist, had Signor Antonelli. And by the
side of the workshop were a couple of small rat holes.
One could hardly turn round in them, one had to
squat as in the prisons of the old kings. And up one
flight were two little hen-coops. In one of them she
had put some hay for a nest and a few perches.

There Gaetano could keep himself if he would
come and live with her.

Gaetano thought he would like to caress her cheek.
She would probably feel very sorry that he could
not go with her. Perhaps he might allow himself to
caress her. He gazed slyly at Father Josef, who sat
looking straight down at the floor and sighing, as
was his wont. He was not thinking of Gaetano, and
she, she took no notice of it at all.

She said she had a maid-servant whose name was
Pacifica, and a man-servant whose name was Luca.
But they were not much help to her, for Pacifica was
old, and since she had become deaf, she had become
so irritable that she could not be allowed to help in
the store. And Luca, who really was a carver and

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