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the feast of san sebastiano ij7i
the whole rosary. She begged the saint that
Gaeteno, who had promised to help all the poor,
should be allowed to return to Diamante.
As Donna Micaela passed her, she heard plainly:
" San Sebastiano, give us Gaetano. Ah, for thy
mercy’s sake, ah, for our misery’s sake, San
Sebastiano, give us Gaetano !"
Donna Micaela had intended to enter the church,
but she turned on the step.
" It is so crowded in there," she said. " I do not
dare."
She went home again. But while she had been
away, Donna Elisa had availed herself of the
opportunity. She had raised a flag on the roof of the
summer palace, she had draped the balconies, and
when Donna Micaela came home, she was fastening
a garland in the portal. For Donna Elisa could not
bear that the summer palace was not decorated.
There must nothing be lacking this time in San
Sebastiano’s honor. And she feared that the saint
would not help Diamante and Gaetano if the old
palace of the Alagonas did not celebrate him.
Donna Micaela came walking along, pale as death,
and so bent that she appeared to be eighty years
old.
She muttered to herself, " I make him no busts, I
sing no songs about him, I dare not pray to God for
him, I buy none of his beads. How shall he be
able to believe that I love him ? He must love all
these others, who worship him, but not me. I do
not belong to his world, me he can no longer love."
And when she saw that another wished to adorn
her house with flowers, it seemed to her so horribly
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