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’palazzo geraci and palazzo corvaja 281
Donna Micaela was very pale. She held her hands
against her heart, as was her wont when anything
excited her. It was terrible for her to stand as enemy
against these swarthy looking men. It was these in
the short mantles and slouched hats whom she had
always feared.
Now, when Donna Elisa appealed to her, she
turned quickly and, seizing the image, held it out
towards the man.
" Take it! " she said defiantly. And she came
forward a step to meet him. " Take it, and do what you
can with it! "
She held the image on her outstretched arms, and
came nearer and nearer to the dark laborer.
He turned towards his comrades. " She thinks I
cannot harm that doll," he said and scoffed at her.
And the whole cluster of working men struck their
knees and laughed.
But he did not take the image, instead he grasped
the large hoe which he held in his hand. He turned
aside a few steps, lifted the hoe above his head and
strained his whole body to give a blow which at once
ought to shatter the abhorred wooden doll.
Donna Micaela shook her head warningly. " You
cannot do it," she said, and she did not draw back
the image.
He saw that she nevertheless was afraid, and he
delighted in frightening her. He stood longer than
was necessary with uplifted hoe.
At that moment there came a loud, distressing cry
of " Piero " and again, " Piero, Piero ! "
The man lowered the hoe without striking. He
looked terrified.
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