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(1909) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Pauline Bancroft Flach
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FRA GAETANO

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poor, and we had nothing to eat; and so father went
to look for work, and he never came back, and
mother and we children were almost dead of
starvation. So mother said: ’We will go and look for
your father.’ And we went. Night came and a
heavy rain, and in one place a river flowed over the
road. Mother asked in one house if we might pass
the night there. No, they showed us out. Mother
and children stood in the road and cried. Then
mother tucked up her dress and went down into the
stream that roared over the road. She had my little
sister on her arm and my big sister by the hand and
a big bundle on her head. I went after as near as I
could. I saw mother lose her footing. The bundle
she carried on her head fell into the stream, and
mother caught at it and dropped little sister. She
snatched at little sister and big sister was whirled
away. Mother threw herself after them, and the
river took her too. I was frightened and ran to the
shore. Father Josef has told me that I escaped
because I was to serve God for the dead, and pray
for them. And that was why it was first decided
that I was to be a monk, and why I now wish to go
away on Etna and become a hermit. There is
nothing else for me but to serve God, Donna Elisa.”

Donna Elisa was quite subdued. “Yes, yes,
Gaetano,” she said, “but it hurts me so. I do not
want you to go away from me.”

“No, I shall not go either,” said Gaetano. He
was in such a good mood that he felt a desire to
laugh. “I shall not go.”

“Shall I speak to the priest, so that you may be
sent to a seminary ?” asked Donna Elisa, humbly.

“No; but you do not understand, Donna Elisa;

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