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(1909) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Pauline Bancroft Flach
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THE BELLS OF SAN PASQUALE ’ 85

in the world could prevent her from feeling joy at
the sight of anything so beautiful.

She asked herself where she had seen him before,
and she remembered that she had seen his face in
her father’s wonderful collection of pictures in the
palace at Catania. There he had not been in
work-ing blouse; he had had a black felt hat with long,
flowing, white feathers, and a broad lace collar over
a velvet coat. And he had been painted by the
great master Van Dyck.

Donna Micaela asked Gaetano for a wax candle,
and he began to look for one. And now, strangely
enough, Gaetano, who saw the little shop every day,
seemed to be quite strange there. He looked for
the wax candle in the drawers of rosaries and in the
little medallion boxes. He could not find anything,
and he grew so impatient^ that he turned out the
drawers and broke the boxes open. The destruction
and disorder were terrible. And it would be a real
grief to Donna Elisa when she came home.

But Donna Micaela liked to see how he shook the
thick hair back from his face, and how his
gold-colored eyes glowed like yellow wine when the sun
shines through it. It was a consolation to see any
one so beautiful.

Then Donna Micaela asked pardon of the noble
gentlemen whom the great Van Dyck had painted.
For she had often said to them: “ Ah, signor, you
have been beautiful, but you never could have been
so dark and so pale and so melancholy. And you
did not possess such eyes of fire. All that the
master who painted you has put into your face.”
But when Donna Micaela saw Gaetano she found
that it all could be in a face, and that the master

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