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(1909) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Pauline Bancroft Flach
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134 the miracles of antichrist

outbreak in Diamante. Then they would fall upon
the town with fire and murder, and march at the
head of all the starving people as the generals and
leaders in the plundering.

All that autumn Donna Micaela had to nurse both
her father and Don Ferrante; for they lay sick
month after month. People had told her, however,
that their lives were in no danger.

She was very glad to be able to keep Don Ferrante
alive, for it was her only hope that at the last the
people would spare him, who was of such an old and
venerated race.

As she sat by their sick-beds, her thoughts went
often in longing to Gaetano, and many were the
times when she wished that he were at home. She
would not feel such terror and fear of death if he
stood once more in his workshop. Then she would
have felt nothing but security and peace.

Even now, when he was so far away, it was to him
her thoughts turned when fear was driving her mad.
Not a single letter had come from him since he had
gone away, so that sometimes she believed that he
had forgotten her entirely. At other times she was
quite sure that he loved her, for she felt herself
compelled to think of him, and knew that he was near
her in thought, and was calling to her.

That autumn she at last received a letter from
Gaetano. Alas, such a letter! Donna Micaela’s
first thought was to burn it.

She had gone up to the roof-garden in order to be
alone when she read the letter. She had once
heard Gaetano’s declaration of love there. That
had not moved her. It had neither warmed her nor
frightened her.

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