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(1899) [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Selma Ahlström Trotz
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the bells of san pasquale. 103

gions through which she passed, she decided to drive
into the nearest city and remain there, till the storm
had passed over. And this city was no other than
Diamante.

The English lady was Miss Tottenham, and it was
she who had moved into Palazzo Palmeri in Catania.
Among other things which she brought with her in
her trunks was the image of Christ, whose help
Donna Micaela had invoked the previous evening.
The image, which now was both old and badly used,
she constantly carried with her as a remembrance of
an old friend, whose riches she had inherited.

One might have believed that San Pasquale knew
what a great miracle-worker the image was, for it
seemed as though he wished to greet him. At the
same moment that Miss Tottenham’s carriage drove
through Porta Etnea the bells began to ring in San
Pasquale’s church.

And they rang the whole day entirely of their own
accord.

San Pasquale’s bells are not much larger than those
used on farms to call the laborers home and like
those they hang on top of the roof under a little
hood, and are put into motion by pulling a rope
hanging down along the church-wall.

It is not heavy work to make the bells ring,
nevertheless they are not so light that they swing entirely
by themselves. He who has seen old Fra Felice from
the Franciscan monastery put his foot in the loop
of the rope and work it up and down to set them in
motion, may well know that the bells could not
begin to ring without help.

But that is just what they did that morning. The

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