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86 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST
had not needed to add anything. Therefore she
asked the noble old gentlemen’s pardon.
At last Gaetano had found the long candle-boxes
that stood under the counter, where they had always
stood. And he gave her the candle, but he did not
know what it cost, and said that she could come in
and pay it later. When she asked him for
something to wrap it in he was in such trouble that she
had to help him to look.
It grieved her that such a man should think of
travelling to Argentina.
He let Donna Micaela wrap up the candle and
watched her while she did it. She wished she could
have asked him not to look at her now, when her
face reflected only hopelessness and misery.
Gaetano had not scrutinized her features more
than a moment before he sprang up on a little
step-ladder, took down an image from the topmost shelf,
and came back with it to her. It was a little gilded
and painted wooden angel, a little San Michele
fighting with the arch-fiend, which he had created
from paper and wadding.
He handed it to Donna Micaela and begged her to
accept it. He wished to give it to her, he said,
because it was the best he had ever carved. He
was so certain that it had greater power than his
other images that he had put it away on the top
shelf, so that no one might see and buy it. He
had forbidden Donna Elisa to sell it except to one
who had a great sorrow. And now Donna Micaela
was to take it.
She hesitated. She found him almost too daring.
But Gaetano begged her to look how well the
image was carved. She saw that the archangel’s
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