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64 the miracles of antichrist.
Then she lowered her eyes and looked down into
a black valley where the ground gleamed like velvet,
and the white Simeto dashed forth down at the
bottom of the glen.
Still she did not turn her eyes in the right direction.
Then at last she saw the steep Monte Chiaro
rising from the black valley, bright red in the morning
light and surrounded by palm trees. And at the
top she had seen a city, turreted and walled, and
with all its windows and weather-vanes aglow with
light. At the sight of which she had seized
Gianni-ta’s arm, and asked her if that was a real city, and if
people lived there.
She thought it was one of the heavenly cities, and
that it would disappear like a vision. She felt
certain that no human being had yet wandered along
the road which ran zig-zag up the mountain, and
disappeared within the dark city gate.
But as she approached nearer to Diamante, and
saw that it was real and earthly, tears rose in her
eyes. That to her the earth still seemed beautiful
touched her. She had believed that after it had been
the scene of all her misfortunes, she would always
find it hoary and faded, and strewn with thistles and
poisonous flowers.
She rode into the impoverished Diamante with
folded hands, as though it were a shrine she was
approaching. And it seemed to her that this city
could offer her not beauty only, but also happiness.
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