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the bells of san pasquale. 99
then she thought: " The Madonna cannot help me."
And immediately she ceased praying.
Then she happened to think of past sorrows and
she remembered the little image which had helped
her when she had been in equally great despair.
She turned with enthusiastic zeal to the
poverty-stricken, little child. "Help me, help me! Help my
aged father, and help me that I be not tempted to
wickedness and revenge!"
When she retired that night, she still continued to
struggle and feel distressed. " If I only could sleep
one hour," she said, " I should know what I wanted."
Gaetano was to start early the following morning.
She finally made up her mind to speak with him before
he went, and tell him that she could not accompany
him. She could not bear to be considered a fallen
woman.
No sooner had she decided this, than she fell asleep.
She did not wake until the clock struck nine the next
morning. And then Gaetano had already gone. She
could not tell him that she repented.
But she did not think of that either. While she
slept something new and strange had come over her.
It seemed to her that during the night she had
lived in heaven and inhaled bliss.
• • • • •
Who of the saints is of greater benefit to the people
than San Pasquale ? Does it not sometimes happen
that they stand talking in some lonely place in the
woods or fields, and that they are either talking ill
of someone or planning something foolish. Well,
just as they are talking and talking they suddenly
hear a rustle near by, causing them to turn round and
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