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(1899) [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Selma Ahlström Trotz
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i so the miracles of* antichrist

her daily bread without being obliged to beg for
it. And when she said that she did not see how that
could ever be, he asked her, almost in anger, if she
did not know that the time had now come, when no
children and none advanced in years should be
without home and protection.

He pointed to the old chair-maker, who was just
as poor as Assunta, and, besides, very sick, and he
asked if she thought that one could endure any
longer to have neither almshouse nor hospital ?

He also saw some children, who he knew lived
mostly on cresses and sorrels, which they gathered
near the river banks and at the edge of the road,
and he promised that hereafter no one should need
to hunger. He placed his hand on the children’s
heads and declared, as proudly as though he had been
prince of Diamante, that they should no more lack
bread.

He said they knew nothing in Diamante; they
were ignorant, they understood not that a new and
blessed time had come, they believed that this misery
would go on continually.

While he thus comforted the poor, more and more
people had collected around him, and suddenly he
sprang up and, placing himself on the curb, began to
speak.

How could they be so foolish, he said, not to
believe that better times were coming. Would the
people, who owned the whole earth, be content
that the aged were left to starve and the little
children were permitted to grow up to be criminals and
wretches ?

Didn’t they know that the mountains and seas

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