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THE BELLS OF SAN PASQUALE ’
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VII
THE BELLS OF SAN PASQUALE
The people of Diamante soon perceived that Don
Ferrante’s wife, Donna Micaela, was nothing but a
great child. She could never succeed in looking
like a woman of the world, and she really was
nothing but a child. And nothing else was to be
expected, after the life she had led.
Of the world she had seen nothing but its
theatres, museums, ball-rooms, promenades, and race
courses; and all such are only play places. She
had never been allowed to go alone on the street.
She had never worked. No one had ever spoken
seriously to her. She had not even been in love
with any one.
After she had moved into the summer palace she
forgot her cares as gayly and easily as a child would
have done. And it appeared that she had the
playful disposition of a child, and that she could
transform and change everything about her.
The old dirty Saracen town Diamante seemed
like a paradise to Donna Micaela. She said that
she had not been at all surprised when Don Ferrante
had spoken to her in the square, nor when he had
proposed to her. It seemed quite natural to her
that such things should happen in Diamante. She
had seen instantly that Diamante was a town where
rich men went and sought out poor, unfortunate
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