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i so the miracles of* antichrist
questions, but she was still petrified and could not
move. She wondered if Gaetano had been shot.
" What do they mean by sentencing him to
twenty-nine years imprisonment?" said Donna Elisa. " Do
they think that he will be able to live so long, or
that any one who loves him will live so long ? He
is dead, Cavaliere, dead to me as is Giannita."
Donna Micaela felt as though she were bound by
strong fetters, in order that she might not escape.
This was worse, she thought, than if she had been
tied to a pillory and whipped.
" All the happiness of my old age is taken from me,"
said Donna Elisa. " Both Giannita and Gaetano!
I have always looked forward to their marrying each
other. It would have been such a suitable match,
because both were my children and loved me. What
have I now to live for, when I have no youth around
me ? It was often hard to make ends meet at the
time when Gaetano came to me, and I was told that
I should be better off were I alone. But I answered :
4 It matters not to me, so long as I may have
youth around me.’ And I thought that when he
grew up, he would take to himself a young wife,
and they would have little children, and I should
never need to be a lonely, useless, old woman."
Donna Micaela lay thinking that she might have
saved Gaetano, but had not wished to do so. But
why had she not wished to do it ? It seemed
inconceivable to her now. She began to enumerate all the
reasons she had had for allowing him to rush
headlong to destruction. He was an atheist and socialist,
and he wanted to aid the insurrectionists. And that
had outweighed everything else, when she had
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