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the coming-home
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And they see her moving a little farther away in
order that Donna Elisa may have the place directly
opposite the image.
Donna Elisa’s hand trembles so that she is obliged
to put down the lantern on the floor, and her voice
is quite hoarse, as she says: " Has no one but you
been here to-night, Micaela ? "—" No, no one else."
Donna Elisa is obliged to lean against the wall to
keep from falling, and Donna Micaela notices it.
Immediately she is at her side and lays her arm
around her waist. " Sit down, sit down!" She
conducts her to the altar platform, and sinks down on
her knees before her. " Is it so bad with him ? We
will pray for him."
" Micaela," says Donna Elisa, " I thought I should
receive succor out here."—" Yes, that you surely will."
—" I dreamed that the image standing there came
to me and said that I ought to come here."—" Ah,
well, many and many a time it has helped us before."
—" But it said like this to me : ’ Make the poor
woman, who lies out there praying at the altar, your
daughter-in-law, then will your son be well ! ’ "—
" What say you, that he said ? "—" I should make
her, who lay praying out here, my daughter-in-law."
—" And would you do that ? Why, you did not
know whom you would meet! "
" On the way I made the promise—and they that
accompanied me, heard it—that whoever it might be,
I should take her in my arms and conduct her to my
home. I thought it was some poor thing that God
wished to help."—"And so it was indeed."—" I felt
so grieved when I saw that there was no one here
but you."
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