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(1909) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Pauline Bancroft Flach
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96 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST

Therefore he could not leave her behind. She
must go with him; she must, she must!

He did not kneel before her. He stood and talked
to her with clenched hands and blazing eyes. He
did not ask her, he commanded her to go with him,
because she was his.

It was no sin to take her away; it was his duty.
What would become of her if he deserted her?

Donna Micaela listened to him without moving.
She sat silent a long time, even after he had ceased
speaking.

“ When are you going ? “ she asked at length.

“I leave Diamante on Saturday.”

“ And when does the steamer go ? ”

“It goes on Sunday evening from Messina.”

Donna Micaela rose and walked away towards the
terrace stairs.

“My father is to go to Catania on Saturday,” she
said. “ I shall ask Don Ferrante to be allowed to
go with him.” She went down a few steps, as if
she did not mean to say anything more. Then she
stopped. “If you meet me in Catania, I will go
with you whither you will.”

She hurried down the steps. Gaetano did not try
to detain her. A time would come when she would
not run away from him. He knew that she could
not help loving him.^

Donna Micaela passed the whole of Friday
afternoon in the Cathedral. She had come to the
Madonna and thrown herself down before her in
despair. “ Oh, Madonna mia, Madonna mia! Shall
I be to-morrow a fugitive wife? Will the world
have the right to say all possible evil of me ?”
Everything seemed equally terrible to her. She was

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