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44 the miracles of antichrist
with his shoes under his arm, his hat on his head
and his bundle at his feet. But Donna Elisa and
Pacifica wept. “He has wished to run away from
us,” they said.
“Why are you sitting here, Gaetano?”
“Donna Elisa, I wanted to run away.”
Gaetano was in a good mood, and answered as
boldly as if it had been the most natural thing in
the world.
“ Do you want to run away ?” repeated Donna
Elisa.
“I wished to go off on Etna and be a hermit.”
“ And why are you sitting here now ?”
“I do not know, Donna Elisa; I must have fallen
asleep.”
Donna Elisa now showed how distressed she was.
She pressed her hands over her heart, as if she had
terrible pains, and she wept passionately.
“But now I shall stay, Donna Elisa,” said
Gaetano.
“ You, stay!” cried Donna Elisa. “ You might as
well go. Look at him, Pacifica, look at the ingrate!
He is no Alagona. He is an adventurer.”
The blood rose in Gaetano’s face and he sprang
to his feet and struck out with his hands in a way
which astonished Donna Elisa. So had all the men
of her race done. It was her father and her
grandfather; she recognized all the powerful lords of the
family of Alagona.
“ You speak so because you know nothing about
it, Donna Elisa,” said the boy. “No, no, you do
not know anything; you do not know why I had to
serve God. But you shall know it now. Do you
see, it was long ago. My father and mother were so
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