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228 . the miracles of antichrist
him and rubs himself against him. Falco feels in
his pocket after bread, but finds only a stone, which
he throws to the dog.
The dog fetches the stone and forthwith comes
back to Falco with it. Falco throws it once more.
The dog takes the stone again, but now he runs
away with it.
Falco remembers that it is the stone he picked up
on Mongibello, and pursues the dog to get it back.
He whistles to the dog, and it comes to him instantly.
" Give me the stone ! " The dog puts his head on
one side and will not give it to him. " Ah, give me
the stone, you rascal! " The dog closes his lips.
Why, he has no stone. " Let’s see, let’s see ! " says
Falco. He bends the head backwards and compels
him to open his mouth. The stone lies far in under
the teeth-membrane, and Falco tries to poke it out.
Then the dog bites him, so that blood flows.
Falco becomes frightened. He goes in to Donna
Silvia. " I trust your dog is sound ? " he says.
" My dog, I have no dog. It is dead."—" But
the one running out there."—" I do not know which
one you mean," she says.
Falco says no more, neither does he harm Donna
Silvia. He only goes his way. He is afraid. He
thinks that the dog is mad and that he himself will
now have hydrophobia.
One evening Donna Micaela sits alone in the
music-room. She has extinguished the lamp and
opened the balcony doors. She likes to listen to the
street at evening and at night. Then blacksmiths,
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