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the miracles of antichrist
VI
FRA FELICE’S TESTAMENT
As Donna Emilia opened the ticket-hole to sell
tickets for the second performance of " The Ancient
Martyrdom," the people were standing in line to get
places; the following evening the theater was so
crowded that people fainted in the crush, and the
third evening people came both from Adern6 and
Patern6 to see the beloved tragedy. Don Antonio
foresaw that he could play it for a whole month for
double the usual prices, and with two representations
every evening.
How happy they were, he and Donna Emilia, and
with what joy and gratefulness they put twenty-five
lire into the little image’s box!
In Diamante this event aroused a good deal of
astonishment, and many people came to Donna Elisa
to learn if she believed that the saints wished that
they should aid Donna Micaela.
" Have you heard, Donna Elisa," they would say,
" that Don Antonio Greco has been helped by the
Christ-child at San Pasquale’s, because he had promised
to give the income of one evening to Donna Micaela’s
railroad ? "
But when asked about this, Donna Elisa pressed
her lips together and looked as though she could think
of nothing but her embroidery.
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