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THE GOD-SISTER
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not tell her what she wished to tell her ? She did not
expect anything but bad news. She was prepared.
But poor Giannita never got a chance to speak;
as soon as she began, the signorina became
frightened and interrupted her. She told her story as if
to induce Giannita not to be too hard to her.
Giannita must not think that her unhappiness
only came from the fact of her no longer having hef
carriage, or a box at the theatre, or beautiful dresses,
or servants, or even a roof over her head. Neither
was it enough that she had now lost all her friends,
so that she did not at all know where she should ask
for shelter. Neither was it misfortune enough that
she felt such shame that she could not raise her eyes
to any one’s face.
But there was something else much worse.
She sat down, and was silent a moment, while
she rocked to and fro in agony. But when Giannita
began to speak, she interrupted her.
Giannita could not think how her father had loved
her. He had always had her live in splendor and
magnificence, like a princess.
She had not done much for him; only let him
think out delightful things to amuse her. It had
been no sacrifice to remain unmarried, for she had
never loved any one like her father, and her own
home had been finer than any one else’s.
But one day her father had come and said to her,
“ They wish to arrest me. They are spreading the
report that I have stolen, but it is not true.” Then
she had believed him, and helped him to hide from
the Carabinieri. And they had looked for him in
vain in Catania, on Etna, over the whole of Sicily.
But when the police could not find Cavaliere
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