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two canzonets
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nothing earthly might come and snatch away from
her this blessed rapture.
But when she met Gaetano on the street, he
hardly noticed her, and when she met him at Donna
Elisa’s, he did not take her hand or speak to her.
For the truth was, that although Gaetano had
come back, because it had been too grievous for him
to go without Donna Micaela, he did not wish to
tempt and entice her. He saw that she was under
the saints’ protection, and that she had become to
him so sacred that he hardly dared to dream of
her.
He wished to be near her, not for the sake of
loving her, but because he believed that her life would
bloom with holy deeds. Gaetano longed for miracles
just as a gardener longs for the first rose of spring.
But as the weeks passed, and Gaetano never sought
to approach Donna Micaela, she began to doubt and
think that he never had loved her. She said to
herself, that he had drawn from her the promise to
flee with him only to show her that the Madonna
could perform a miracle.
But if that had been the case, she did not know
why he had not continued his journey, but returned.
This caused her anxiety. It seemed to her she
could not control her love with less than to know
if Gaetano loved her. She weighed for and against,
and she felt more and more certain that he had
never loved her.
While Donna Micaela pondered upon this, she
was obliged to sit and keep Don Ferrante company.
He had been sick a long time. He had had several
attacks of apoplexy, and had risen from his bed a
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