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i so the miracles of* antichrist
She would have liked to tell him how she had
dreamed of him. She would have said that had she
not had him to dream of, life would have been
unendurable. She would have begged to be allowed to
kiss his hand out of gratitude, because he had given
her life during all these years.
If there was to be no insurrection why did he talk
socialism ? What did socialism concern them, who
sat there alone in Donna Elisa’s old garden ? She
sat gazing along one of the garden paths. Lucahad
put up wooden arches on both sides of it, and up
these garlands of delicate rose shoots full of buds
and flowers now twined. One always wondered
where this little path would lead when one followed it.
And one arrived at a little weather-beaten Cupid.
Old Lucahad more sense about things than Gaetano.
While they sat there, the sun went down, and Etna
became rose-hued. It was as if Etna had blushed
in indignation at what was passing in Donna Elisa’s
garden. It was at sunset, when Etna grew brilliantly
red, that she had been wont to think of Gaetano.
It was as if they both had expected him. And both
of them had seen clearly how it would be when
Gaetano came. She had only feared that he would
be too passionate and violent. And now he only
talked of these terrible socialists, whom she detested
and feared.
He spoke long. She saw how Etna paled and
be-became bronze-brown, and then came the darkness.
She knew it would be moonlight. She sat there
perfectly still, hoping for help from the moonlight.
She herself could do nothing. She was completely
in his power. But when the moonlight came, that
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