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(1899) [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Selma Ahlström Trotz
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i so the miracles of* antichrist

she and little Rosalia, who loved Gandolfo, were at
his side almost simultaneously. They embraced and
kissed him and told him that no one had spoken
like him, no one, no one. Didn’t he see how they
wept ? San Sebastiano was satisfied with him.
Donna Micaela put a ring on the boy’s finger and
round about him was waving of many-colored silk
handkerchiefs, which glittered like waves in the
intense light from the cathedral wall. " Viva
Gaetano, viva Gandolfo ! " cried the people.

And flowers and fruit and silk handkerchiefs and
trinkets rained down upon little Gandolfo. Donna
Micaela was pushed away from him almost by force.
But it did not occur to her to feel frightened. She
stood right in the midst of the surging throng
weeping. The tears streamed down her face, and she
wept for joy. That was the greatest blessing of all.

She wanted to push forward to Gandolfo, she could
not thank him enough. Had he not told her that
Gaetano loved her. When he had quoted these words:
" Now is her will done, whom they just now carried
by, she had understood at once, that Gaetano had
believed it was she lying there under the Alagona pall.

And of the dead one he had said : " I love her."

The blood flowed anew in her veins, her heart beat
again, the tears fell. " It is life, life, ’ she said to
herself, while she passively was carried back and forth
by the crowd. " Life has returned to me. I shall
not die."

All pressed forward to little Gandolfo to thank him
because he gave them something to love, to hope
for, to long for, during these days of gloom, when all
seemed lost.

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