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i so the miracles of* antichrist
the white brotherhood. And these had carried
Giannita’s body to her mother’s house.
When Donna Micaela awoke, she found herself
lying on a sofa in a room outside her father’s. No one
was with her, but in there she heard Donna Elisa
talking.
" My son and my daughter," said Donna Elisa,
sobbing, " I have lost both my son and my daughter."
Donna Micaela tried to rise, but could not. Her
body was still in a dormant state, though her soul had
awaked.
" Cavaliere, Cavaliere," said Donna Elisa, " can you
understand this? Here come brigands from Etna
stealing into Diamante. Here come brigands firing
at the custom-house and crying:’ Long live socialism.’
And this they do only to frighten the people away
from the street and to entice the carabineers down to
Porta Etnea. There is not one man in Diamante who
is a party to this. It is the brigands who create all
the disturbance, to get a chance to plunder Miss
Tottenham and Donna Micaela, plunder two women,
Cavaliere ! What have those gentlemen officers
believed, who held court-martial ? Have they believed
that Gaetano was in league with the brigands ? Didn’t
they see that he was a gentleman, a genuine Alagona,
an artist ? How were they capable of sentencing
him?"
Donna Micaela listened in consternation, but she
endeavored to persuade herself that she was still
dreaming. She fancied she could hear Gaetano
asking if she were sacrificing him to God ? And it
seemed to her she answered that she did. Now she
dreamed of how it would be, in case he had actually
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