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88 228 . the miracles of antichrist
beset with pins that it looked like a steel ball. It
was Palazzo Corvaja that tried to spirit into her
head as many pains as there were pins in the lemon.
Corvaja waited a few days to see what effect the
lemon should make. But as Donna Micaela’s people
went on with their staking out, they came one night
and pulled them up. And when the stakes were put
up again the next day, they broke the windows in San
Pasquale’s, and threw stones at the image of Christ.
There was a long and narrow little market-place on
the south side of Monte Chiaro. On the two long
sides stood tall, dark buildings. On one of the short
sides was a steep chasm, on the other rose the
precipitous mountain. The side of the mountain was
arranged in terraces, but the steps were sunken and
the marble balustrades broken. On the broadest
terrace rose the stately ruin of Palazzo Corvaja.
The chief ornament of the market-place was a
magnificent oblong basin for water, directly below
the terraces and close to the mountain wall. It stood
there, snow-white, adorned with reliefs and full of
clear, cool water. That, of all Corvaja’s grandeur,
was best preserved.
One lovely and peaceful spring evening, two
ladies, dressed in black, entered the little
marketplace. For a moment it was almost deserted. They
looked about, and, seeing no one, sat down on the
bench by the well, and waited.
Soon some curious children approached and
surveyed them, and one of them, who was old, began
speaking to the children. She proceeded to relate
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