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228 . the miracles of antichrist
Fra Felice turned his eyes towards her and smiled :
" I shall die," he said hoarsely, but correcting
himself he said : " I am permitted to die."
Donna Elisa asked what the matter was, and said
she would get help.
" Sit down here," he said, and made a feeble
attempt to wipe off the dust on the platform with his
sleeve.
Donna Elisa said she would fetch priests and
sisters of charity. He seized her skirt and detained
her.
" I wish to speak with you first, Donna Elisa."
He spoke with difficulty, gasping for breath
between each word. Donna Elisa seated herself
beside him and waited.
He lay panting for a while, then a blush spread
over his face, his eyes began to beam, and he spoke
with ease and fervor.
" Donna Elisa," said Fra Felice, " I have an
inheritance to give away. It has troubled me all day.
I know not to whom I shall give it."
" Fra Felice," said Donna Elisa, " do not trouble
yourself about such things. There is no one to
whom a gift is not welcome."
But as Fra Felice was feeling a little stronger now,
he wished before deciding about the inheritance, to
tell Donna Elisa how good God had been to him.
" Has not the Lord been gracious to me, who has
made me a polacco f " he said.
" Yes, that indeed is a great gift," said Donna Elisa.
" Only to be an insignificant polacco is a great
gift," said Fra Felice, " it is particularly useful, since
the monastery has been dissolved, and the brothers
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