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the bells of san pasquale.
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enable him to see her eyes. Glorious as stars, they
were fixed upon him in fervent prayer.
" Be merciful ! You know how I love him !"
Don Ferrante laughed. " You should have
commenced with that. Now you’ve got me angry."
She continued to kneel perfectly still, looking up at
him.—" It’s well," he said, " that next time you know
how to behave." She still remained 011 her knees.
Then he asked her: " Shall I or you tell him ? "
Donna Micaela felt ashamed that she had
humiliated herself. She rose and answered authoritatively :
" I will tell him, but not before the last day. And
you must not let him notice anything."
" No, that I won’t," he said, mimicking her. "A
short wailing pleases me best."
But when he was gone, Donna Micaela laughed
at Don Ferrante, because he imagined that he could
do with her father as he pleased. She knew well
enough who would help her.
In the cathedral at Diamante is a miracle-working
Madonna image, and this is its history.
A long, long time ago there lived in a cave in
Monte Chiaro a holy hermit. One night this hermit
dreamed that in the harbor of Catania lay a ship
laden with images of saints, and among these was
one, so sacred, that the Englishmen, who are richer
than all others, would have given for it its weight in
gold. As soon as the hermit awoke from his dream,
he went to Catania. When he came there he saw
that his dream was true. In the harbor lay a ship
laden with images of saints, and among them was
one of the holy Madonna, which was holier than all
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