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90 228 . the miracles of antichrist
" Let us have it, let us have it! " cried the
children.
Just then a laborer, large, dark complexioned
with a black, bristly beard, pushed himself forward.
He wanted to snatch away the image. The old lady
barely had time to thrust it behind her back.
"Give it here, Donna Elisa, give it here!" said
the man.
Poor Donna Elisa glanced at Donna Micaela, who
had sat silent and displeased beside her. It was
with difficulty Donna Micaela had been persuaded
to go to Corvaja and show the image to the people
there. " The image will aid us when it pleases,"
she said.
But Donna Elisa had persisted in going and had
said that the image was only waiting to be carried
to the unbelieving wretches in Corvaja. After all it
had done, they surely might put so much
confidence in it, that they believed that it would win
these also.
But there stood Donna Elisa now, the fellow
towering above her, and seeing no way to prevent him
from snatching the image away from her.
" Give it to me with a good grace, Donna Elisa,"
said the man, " or, by God, I’ll take it. I’ll chop it
into small pieces, into small, small pieces. You will
see how much there will be left of your wooden doll.
You will see, if it will be able to vie with the black
Madonna."
Donna Elisa pressed herself up close to the side of
the mountain ; she saw no means of escape. She could
not run, nor could she struggle. " Micaela," she
moaned, " Micaela ! "
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