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the feast of san sebastiano ij7i
’ I have not much more than you to defend myself
with. But I have nevertheless something. I have
given up my pursuit in England for the sake of aiding
the rebellion in Sicily. I have brought home
weapons. I have made revolutionary speeches. ’ I
have something though not much/
"The judge had almost begged him. ’Do not
speak so, Don Gaetano,’ he had said. ’ Think of
what you are saying ! ’
"His confessions, however, were such, that they
were compelled to sentence him.
" When they had told him that he should be put in
prison for twenty-nine years he had cried : ’ Now her
will is done, whom they just carried past. May it
be as she wished !’
" And I saw no more of him," said the little
Gandolfo, for the guardsmen took him between
them and led him away.
" But I who heard him pray for them, who had
murdered his beloved, promised myself that I would
do something for him.
" I promised to recite a beautiful improvisation to
San Sebastiano in order that he might help him.
But I have not succeeded. I am no improvisatore,
I could not do it."
Here he ceased and threw himself down before the
image and sobbed aloud. " Forgive me that I was
not able," he cried, " and help him notwithstanding.
Thou knowest that when they sentenced him I
promised to do this for his sake, so that thou might
save him, but now I have not been able to speak of
thee and thou wilt not help him."
Donna Micaela hardly knew how it happened that
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